Re:Playstation VR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99
by onethought on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:11PM
(#33442284)
This isn’t true. You’ve always been able to use a headset with an oculus account. More recently you had to switch to a Meta account. Neither of those are Facebook accounts.
Source: never had Facebook, but have had Quests
Re:Playstation VR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99
by zizee on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:13PM
(#33443002)
I also never had to connect my (rift) headset to a Facebook account, but wasn't there a period when new quests needed to be connected to Facebook accounts?
Re:Playstation VR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99
by vvillena on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:20PM
(#33443064)
If you didn't have a previously-existing Oculus account, there was a period in which you were forced to use your Facebook account. I think this was since the release of Quest 2, up until a few months ago.
Re:Playstation VR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99
by onethought on Sunday November 06, 2022 @01:08AM
(#33489225)
This sounds like it could be right - I was pretty early on the oculus bandwagon - then only recently had to "upgrade to meta".
To answer some of the siblings. Yes a Meta account is not a Facebook account. Facebook = A product. Just like an Instagram account isn't a Facebook account either. But they are both 'meta'.
Meta essentially end-of-lifed oculus accounts but transitioned them to Meta. I think (myself included) people would not have liked being forced into another product.
It's not their brand per se that's the issue, but the fact that their headsets were bricks unless you had signed up for a Facebook account with all the issues that come with that, from privacy concerns to getting locked out seemingly on a whim: https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/j22lmx/im_out_...
The response from Meta still leaves a lot to be desired: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/07/quest-vr-has-traded-f...
Less important than Meta rehabbing their brand image would be them actually putting a stop to their user hostile behavior.