I wish there are viable alternatives for Quest.

I wish I'd done the same. Oculus Home is a truly atrocious piece of software and frankly I haven't touched my Rift in a year because of it.

Right? "Oh, you've got this full, 3D, completely spatial work space. Look at the fireplace, isn't it gorgeous? Now EAT A 2D MENU! EAT IT! RIGHT NOW IN YOUR FACE!!!"

More that it constantly asserts that things are working when they aren't and aren't when they are, freaks out if it isn't the only thing connected to an HDMI port though DP and DVI are fine, declares some titles "undownloadable" for no reason.

Nothing, though, compares to the irredeemable idiocy of forcing the user to have a monitor, mouse, and keyboard facing their play area in order to set up the guardian system, which you have to do essentially every time you use it because it will go out of alignment at a gnat's fart despite being screwed to the desk.

As an anecdote, I recently bought the Quest and have had a really seamless experience. None of these issues around display ports or configuring the play area for Guardian are a factor with this version.

$100 doesn't sound worth not having to use a facebook account to me. you can just make a bogus one with no info on it.

Can you? Don't you need a credit card attached?

Still possible but most people will not that far to hide information from facebook.

You need a CC attached to buy stuff on the Oculus store.

I've got 100+ VR games and never bought anything on the Oculus store. Steam games work just as well, and will be easier to use if you ever switch to another VR headset.

Same problem with Fitbit and Nest and Google :(

Had settled on getting a Fitbit as my fitness and sleep tracker, but was unaware of the acquisition by Google :/

Given the Oculus/FB fallout here I want to buy somewhere else.

And trusting Garmin seems a bit unlikely, sigh.

Apple Watch at iOS/apple seem to take privacy at least half serious

I have a general policy of not keeping hardware from known user-hostile companies in my house. They have way more time to worm things I don't want into their hardware than I have time to keep tabs on it, so I just don't.