Closing thoughts...

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DISCLAIMER: Things can greatly change during the upcoming days, and this could end up no longer being true in that time, so be sure to take all of this with a grain of salt.

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Tomorrow, in about 7 hours, will be the day Meta will force us Quest users to migrate our accounts to Meta accounts in order to keep using our Quest device.

Tomorrow will also be the day I will take my only headset (Quest 1), package it neatly into the box it came in, and shelve it for an unspecified amount of time.

I will not go through the process of migrating my Oculus account into a Meta account.

After all the privacy snafus that the company formerly known as Facebook has had in the past, in several platforms, the controversy it generated during these last years, the name change, and the exit of one of the most brilliant minds that shaped the way VR is to be experienced by us all, from the company, I have come to a sad conclusion:

Meta is no longer to be trusted with our account data.

It is with a very heavy heart that I do this. I love my Quest 1, it is (almost) everything I have wanted a VR headset to  be, and I'd love to use it forever and ever (particularly, with Developer Mode on), but my fear of Meta misusing my auth data is currently overwhelming my feelings for the device.

It's been a wild and nice ride. Thank you everyone who supported me by playing my only published (sideloaded) VR app, and I wish you guys who will accept Meta's terms the best with your devices, old and new. Me? I'm out for a different way to experience VR - that is, unless Meta decide to change things regarding its current account issues.

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I would like to leave this thread open for other people to comment on this, and to listen to your opinion about this issue, if you're inclined to do so. I will not be able to answer, of course, since I won't have a Meta account to do it. But anything you wish to say here, I will make sure to read it for as long as I'm able to.