Introducing Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR

Bonjour, 

j'ai acheté un Quest 2 256Go début Août,  toujours en attente de l'application de l'annonce . J'ai donc créé en un compte Facebook à usage unique qui sera supprimé par la suite. Pour l'instant,  aucun achat de jeu , bien évidemment . Un responsable Facebook pourrait-il nous en dire ce qu'il en est ? 

Also waiting for Meta account rollout.

Any updates on when Meta accounts are rolling out? Ryanality 

Where is your problem guys and gals?

The new v43 update is on it's way, which is the base for the account switch.

Things take time und August hasn't passed - so calm down and be patient.

I think people are eager to see exactly what this entails. Personally the proof of the pudding is in what information I'm required to provide.

I'm expecting to give Meta the bare minimum to allow me to use the hardware; name, address and payment details. That's what should happen if it's "not a social media account" as we've been told.

It will also be nice to be able to properly review the EULA/privacy statement although the Company doesn't have a great track record of abiding by its own rules.

Anything else and I'm afraid it's goodbye Meta, hello HTC.

That’s exactly where I’m at Anonymous . I’ve had an Oculus account since I bought my DK2, and I was extremely annoyed to find that I cannot login using my Oculus account on the Quest 2.

I no longer have a Facebook account and will not sign up for one as I do not want the games I have paid for to disappear overnight due to inactivity or some other arbitrary and irrevocable judgement by their mod team. So the Meta login appears to be the only way for me to enjoy the hardware I have just purchased, which I had been hoping would be the next great thing from Oculus.

I’m just eager to play using my device, so any specific updates on when I can actually do that from support would be appreciated. It sounds like it could be “late August” now, so I guess that means I should assume August 31st. 😞

Bonsoir , 

je vais parti de ceux qui ont acheter un Quest 2 suite a la possibilité de ne plus avoir besoin de compte Facebook pour l'utiliser 😉 . Le communiqué sur l'annonce de la mise à jour v43 nous donne des nouvelles sur cette mise en place , qui est complexe car pour ceux qui ont acheté des jeux , des paramétrages liés avec leurs comptes Facebook , il faut bien reconnaitre que la tache est énorme et complexe .

Pour l'instant , j'ai crée un compte Facebook , on peut le paramétrer de façon a être totalement transparent . Par prudence , je n'effectue aucun achat pour l'instant car mon compte Facebook sera supprimé , une fois mon compte Méta crée 👌. J'attends les prochaines étapes et merci de nous avoir donné des nouvelles 👍. 

The problem is the company reps don't say that. They say the new account is not a social media profile and there is no obligation to join any form of social platform. If the Horizon profile was optional then that would be true and people who don't want that aspect could just use their headsets.

Visit a website and your data will be collected. Most likely by Facebook, even if you don’t have a Facebook account. Why would you want to voluntarily give them more personal data?

Whilst other services may collect data, they haven’t infringed privacy to such a massive scale that they have been called to testify to the Senate.

Forums are an opportunity for users to express their opinions, especially on something as important as data privacy. There is no requirement for anyone to post or, indeed, to read any of the posts if they don't want to. It's a community and people will have an opinion which differs from yours.

Telling someone that if they think Meta privacy is an issue they should just go elsewhere doesn't help. It simply strengthens the position that we should just meekly accept a lack of privacy in the 21st century.

Think of it as a chat around a few beers in a pub. When the person across the table says something you disagree with you don't generally tell him to find another pub.

It's clear from the posts up to now that there is a concern from people, who have bought hardware in good faith, that the goalposts have moved regarding the personal information they are required to share. We don't know, as yet, whether that concern is valid. Until the Meta accounts are live and we get the chance to see what Meta have done speculation is all that we have.