This would seem to underpin the feeling that some posters on other forums have voices that the Facebook management are not enamored with the previous Oculus community and want to achieve a "hard reset" over what has passed. Totally distancing themselves from the previous Oculus userbase and focusing on the brand new uplands envisaged for the Quest-2, with no pesky baggage. It is the kind'a ultimate slap in the face to the 12-month old Rift-S and Quest-1 community who may also have brought a Quest-2, hoping they would be able to pick which platform they could use dependent on what they wanted to do that day!
Like all things currently, I am sure the devil is in the details - and can be rolled back at any time if the backlash proves embarrassing.
https://vrawards.aixr.org/
"The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities"
nalex66 said:
Please note that while the message clarifies there will be no ban (anything else would have been ridiculous), it also uses careful wording that does not mention or clarify if there currently is a problem using two or more headsets with one account.
And reading between the lines on the last statement, it would seem they want each user to sign in using separate accounts on the same headset when swapping or using multiple headsets. Gotta get and link that precious information for each person to increase resale worth you know..
Even made the front page of Blue's News, lol - sometimes I do wonder if it's really true that any publicity is good publicity...
jab said:
nalex66 said:
Please note that while the message clarifies there will be no ban (anything else would have been ridiculous), it also uses careful wording that does not mention or clarify if there currently is a problem using two or more headsets with one account.And reading between the lines on the last statement, it would seem they want each user to sign in using separate accounts on the same headset when swapping or using multiple headsets. Gotta get and link that precious information for each person to increase resale worth you know..
How does it not clarify if there is currently a problem using two or more headsets with one account? It specifically says "using the same Facebook account on two or more headsets simultaneously will NOT get your account banned" and also that it is not against the ToS. That seems pretty clear that there is no problem (from a rules standpoint) with using two headsets with one account (even at the same time).
There is a logistical problem, due to some apps not being able to handle multiple users under the same username, but this is addressed in another statement (quoted above, but not in my post) where they mention their plan to allow multiple users to sign into the device using their own Facebook accounts. This allows any Facebook user to have their own VR username and avatar, and it means that your guest is not appearing as you in VR. This seems to me to be a practical, sensible solution that is consistent with the rest of their user policy, and finally gives us a way to share our headsets with friends and family and play multi-player between our own devices.
There have been some concerns voiced that after the Weekends promise from Oculus that more information on the actual situation regarding multiple accounts that we have returned to radio silence.
I really hope that what was done to obfuscate the poor information originally supplied by a Oculus staffer to the member of the public was not just filling to try and defuse the media, and that they have no intention of clarifying the situation?
I really hope that what was done to obfuscate the poor information originally supplied by a Oculus staffer to the member of the public was not just filling to try and defuse the media, and that they have no intention of clarifying the situation?
Uh-oh... 😄