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Introducing Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR

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Coming in August 2022, we’ll begin rolling out Meta accounts, a new way for people to log into their VR headsets that doesn’t require a Facebook account.

Your Meta account is not a social media profile; it lets you log into your VR devices and view and manage your purchased apps in one place. You can also add your Meta account to the same Accounts Center as your Facebook or Instagram account to unlock connected experiences across Meta technologies — like finding your Facebook friends to play games with in VR or chatting with friends on Messenger.

To learn more, check out our blog post.

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LethalAims

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Please can Oculus clarify these apparently contradictory statements.

Ryanality wrote:
Your Meta account is not a social media profile

https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-accounts/

After you finish creating a Meta account, you’ll be prompted to create a Meta Horizon profile, which replaces your Oculus profile. Your Meta Horizon profile is your social profile in VR and other surfaces, like the web.

Is it mandatory to have a Meta Horizon profile, or can you decline/skip this step after creating a Meta account? If the profile is mandatory then it is misleading to say the account is not a profile.

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TomCgcmfc

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Lethal_Aims Please give us break and wait until next month when they come into effect lol!

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Anonymous

It's a valid question and I would also like to know the answer. If you're not concerned with your personal data/privacy that's fine, please don't ridicule people who are.

Companies like Meta have not been taken to task for their misleading representations enough and look at the state of the industry as a result.

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LethalAims

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On TomCgcmfc advice I re-read the blog article and found the following.

If you’ve been logging into your VR device with your Oculus account, you can continue to do so until January 1, 2023, at which point you’ll need to create a Meta account and Meta Horizon profile to continue using your Meta VR device.

Sounds to me like the public social profile is mandatory. This Facebook link details all the personal data Meta will store and could potentially share with third-parties.

https://store.facebook.com/gb/legal/quest/updated-privacy-policy/

The information collected in your use of Meta technology will be used to:

To power social features and personalise and promote content

Stating a Meta account is not a social media profile is at best misleading. Given Facebook's history of personal data privacy abuse you would think they would be a little more honest and transparent about these major changes for Oculus users.

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Nimarus

Up and Coming

The whole "You have to join Facebook" caused me to completely abandon my Oculus Rift. It's been collecting dust for nearly a year. Why spend my hard-earned money on a game library I'm going to be locked out of in about a year? I'm still not a fan of the Meta Account, but at least I'll be able to keep my library and not enslave myself to the cancer that is Facebook. Just don't expect any real personal info for my Meta account.

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RauelRualbe

Participant

I spoke with several people by reopening an old Oculus ticket and have been repeatedly assured that their is no obligation to join any form of social platform if you do not require social interaction. I really pushed it to make certain there was no misunderstanding, no grey area. It will apparently be pretty much the same as it is using an Oculus account now.

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Fazz

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I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that after creating a meta account that you don't have to create an Horizon VR social account? You can just create a meta account and continue to use your Oculus account games?

Here's something that's bugging me. Everytime I login to this forum it asks me link my Oculus account to a meta account, but I'm not sure if to do this incase it's going to create a Facebook account. After doing some refreshing of the page, it then just lets me login with my old Oculus account.

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LethalAims

Participant

The article linked by the community manager states otherwise and contradicts what RauelRualbe was told.

The blog states, "you’ll need to create a Meta account and Meta Horizon profile to continue using your Meta VR device" and also, "Your Meta Horizon profile is your social profile in VR and other surfaces, like the web".

Sounds to me the the requirement for a mandatory public social profile is being disguised by sneaky semantics. Oculus representatives who are stating that Meta account is not a social media profile are at best being misleading.

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MonkeyMagic77

New Participant

Any indication of when this will be going live? I have a new Quest 2 and an oculus account and I would like to get started using it. I noticed the price hike happened overnight and thankfully purchased before that happened.

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Zwenkwiel

Participant

same here, Meta Account when?!
Also can't I just make some BS FB account and then de-couple it when Meta accounts arrive?! cuz I mainly wanna use it for PCVR and don't really have to buy games for the quest 2 itself right away...

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DriftKing090

New Participant

Monday 1 august, still need FB account?

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Zwenkwiel

Participant

yep, go to the app to register my new quest 2 and facebook is the only option. (already logged in with this occulus account but that's not enough for quest 2)

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Buetigame

Participant

Just wait for tuesday...

And maybe it's smart to wait a little longer 😉

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Alogan2013

New Participant

Hello,

just curious, it was said that the new Meta sign in for Iculis quest was going to be rolled in August without the need for a Facebook account, we’ll it is August 10 and last I check Oculus Quest 2 is still asking me to create a Facebook account to sign in on the platform.

any idea when the new nonFacebook sign OBS are coming in effect?

thank you

SwooshStackz

Up and Coming

Meta, one platform to rule them all! I think replacing Facebook with a meta account login requirement is a splendid idea that I support seven fold!!! Very good strategic master mind of an idea and I thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous

So it's 12th of August and still nothing... Any news when and how? I reda all the blog info, rules. Everything no infromation how. And when i tryed create new acc it says I need facebook.

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TomCgcmfc

Honored Contributor

Anonymous A little birdie told me end of next week.

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crazy25000

New Participant

Would've been nice to have the correct date in the blog post. I bought a new quest 2 last week because I thought FB was no longer required. Unnecessary frustration.

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