Facebook account required for new Oculus hmd users Oct 2020 - existing users can wait to Jan 2023

[RuneSR2]

More here:

https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-and-unlock-social-features/

Today, we’re announcing some important updates to how people log into Oculus devices, while still keeping their VR profile. Starting in October 2020:

• Everyone using an Oculus device for the first time will need to log in with a Facebook account.

• If you’re an existing user and already have an Oculus account, you’ll have the option to log in with Facebook and merge your Oculus and Facebook accounts.

• If you’re an existing user and choose not to merge your accounts, you can continue using your Oculus account for two years.

After January 1, 2023, we will end support for Oculus accounts. If you choose not to merge your accounts at that time, you can continue using your device, but full functionality will require a Facebook account. We will take steps to allow you to keep using content you have purchased, though we expect some games and apps may no longer work. This could be because they include features that require a Facebook account or because a developer has chosen to no longer support the app or game you purchased. All future unreleased Oculus devices will require a Facebook account, even if you already have an Oculus account.

[Anonymous]

RuneSR2 said:

Also be careful deleting your Facebook account when linked to your Oculus account, because that will delete your Oculus account and all your purchases too:

So much for the "separate VR profile". This news makes it useless. Separate, but strangely connected.

[Morgrum]

synchromesh62 said:

Now if Google made a VR Headset that would be cool .. Google VR.. Could be big and they can afford it.
Dont mind linking my Google Account.
🙂

Dude Google is just as intrusive as FB and they have their own antitrust lawsuit they are going through.
I mean no lie google is just if not more worrying then FB.

[Zenbane]

Morgrum said:

synchromesh62 said:

Now if Google made a VR Headset that would be cool .. Google VR.. Could be big and they can afford it.
Dont mind linking my Google Account.
🙂

Dude Google is just as intrusive as FB and they have their own antitrust lawsuit they are going through.
I mean no lie google is just if not more worrying then FB.

And Google sends all their tracked info to Facebook anyway, so... LOL?

[kevinw729]

Richooal said:

RuneSR2 said:

Also be careful deleting your Facebook account when linked to your Oculus account, because that will delete your Oculus account and all your purchases too:

So much for the "separate VR profile". This news makes it useless. Separate, but strangely connected.

We have to realize that much of the "intention" of what Facebook plans with their steerage of the Oculus bandwagon is not actually official, but in many cases the "wish-fulfillment" of certain posters on the forums. A number of uber-fans perceive themselves as representing the view of the corporation, as was seen on the Oculus Quest Facebook group. Now the reality of the actual intentions of the walled garden Facebook has created for their Oculus brand are starting to appear and we can see the separation between what these fans wanted and what they are going to be forced to adopt. 

[HaselHoof]

synchromesh62 said:

Now if Google made a VR Headset that would be cool .. Google VR.. Could be big and they can afford it.
Dont mind linking my Google Account.
🙂

Haha then everyone would be saying omg i hate google you shouldnt have to make/link your hmd to a google account lol ..... boohooo why wont the world bend to my will .

[kevinw729]

HaselHoof said:

synchromesh62 said:

Now if Google made a VR Headset that would be cool .. Google VR.. Could be big and they can afford it.
Dont mind linking my Google Account.
🙂

Haha then everyone would be saying omg i hate google you shouldnt have to make/link your hmd to a google account lol ..... boohooo why wont the world bend to my will .

Ha, I thought they already had!

[Anonymous]

Morgrum said:

Dude Google is just as intrusive as FB and they have their own antitrust lawsuit they are going through.
I mean no lie google is just if not more worrying then FB.

Oh i dont doubt that but we have been doing that for years with google in fact as soon as you search for something on the internet from day one they have your location and details from your device tracking what your searching for, where your going and what products you buy which make FB look like newbies. The point i meant was no one ever complains about a Gmail account despite the fact we know all this and i think they could make a great headset.
It was Just me thinking aloud really.
🙂

[cmat100]

Very true 🙂 Google would face the same issues as Oculus / FB if they started doing this..........  But yeah, people would kick off much less due to Googles more cuddly image.

I think Google has been very clever in deflecting the inherent unease caused by tracking.  It's motto "Don't be Evil" which means to Google "Getting as close to the creepy line as far as possible without crossing it".  FB has taken a errrr..... slightly different approach here.  Apple has taken the "Privacy First" path,  as it's main revenue is not advertising.

But as it stands at the moment your android phone can't be 'paperwieghted' by a Google Account, same for Apple / iOS.  And their main purpose is not Access Control to the worlds largest, and free, social media service.

[Zenbane]

kevinw729 said:
We have to realize that much of the "intention" of what Facebook plans with their steerage of the Oculus bandwagon is not actually official, but in many cases the "wish-fulfillment" of certain posters on the forums. A number of uber-fans perceive themselves as representing the view of the corporation, as was seen on the Oculus Quest Facebook group. Now the reality of the actual intentions of the walled garden Facebook has created for their Oculus brand are starting to appear and we can see the separation between what these fans wanted and what they are going to be forced to adopt

Still commenting on people instead of the issues I see  😄

On the subject of "uber-fans" that think themselves representing the view of corporations and have many "wish-fulfillments," lets recall when you said Quest was "too little, too late." You believed that WMR was gong to make Quest difficult to be a success:

As Santa Cruz is not out yet, and will be coming out "after" the first line-up of MS WinMR platforms (mid-2018), it could look like it is coming to the party with "too little too late"

-kevin729
https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/comment/562195/#Comment_562195

Yet look at how successful Quest has become.

We can also look at the predictions you made about Facebook and Oculus investing in OOH, which they have now abandoned (most likely due to the pandemic). 

Rather than calling out "other people" for getting some of their own predictions wrong, perhaps we should either call out "ourselves" or simply refrain from callouts altogether. It provides little value and comes off more as an attack, which is the behavior that landed certain posters in "forum jail" recently. Better to learn a lesson and move on instead of falling back in to old patterns.

[Morgrum]

I want a walled garden now.
Looks nice and peaceful.