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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by caslon on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:51PM (#28678408)
It requires an Oculus account. There are ways to get a new one even now that don't require you to make a Facebook account. If you check the subreddit you'll probably be able to figure it out in about ten minutes. I make a habit of not mentioning exactly how to do it here because I don't trust employees of companies on HN to avoid fixing any user-beneficial problem involving their work.
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by girvo on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:58PM (#28679172)
Is that still the case as of today? Even the subreddit itself seems convinced its no longer possible to create an Oculus account with a Quest 2 without linking a Facebook account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/k81bg2/oculus_witho...

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by caslon on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:52AM (#28681709)
It still is the case. I was alarmed by how many people were insisting I'm wrong, so I factory reset mine and walked through the process with a new, non-FB Oculus account. Still works.
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by girvo on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:03PM (#28702045)
Quest 2? Thats good to know, I'll see if I can find the method you're talking about then.
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by stronglikedan on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:55PM (#28678443)
They say they will eventually force everyone to Facebook. At least, that's what they said when I got mine back in January.
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by caslon on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:07PM (#28678509)
Nope, that's not what they were saying. They did say that they'd eventually cut out the store for people on legacy Oculus accounts, but your headset would still be perfectly usable; you'd still be able to load .apks in like you can now, you'd still be able to use it with a computer, and it would still more or less work just fine, as long as you weren't depending on Oculus functionality beforehand.

It'd be more like a Wii without Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. It really won't be that different unless you're dependent on their online services.

However, eventually they'll be getting rid of the avenues to make a new account without a Facebook account like they've already slowly been doing. Which is a bad move, but while the avenues are available they might as well be taken.

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by grumbel on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:50AM (#28681688)
Quest2 requires a Facebook account, only Quest1/Rift/S still work with an old Oculus account (at least until 2023 when that goes away as well and it's Facebook for everybody).
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by caslon on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:06AM (#28681805)
False. I literally factory reset and made a new Oculus account just to verify that the comments so harshly insisting that I was wrong were in fact wrong, and they are. You've gotta jump through a single hoop, but that hoop isn't making a Facebook account.
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by sneak on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @12:48AM (#28679461)
Oculus is owned by Facebook; an Oculus account is still a Facebook (Inc) account.
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