While the biggest news from the Facebook connection Livestream was the renaming of Facebook to Meta (which I don’t want to use), the social media company also announced that Oculus Quest VR headsets no longer require a Facebook account.
“As we’ve been more focused on work and frankly, since we’ve heard your feedback more generally, we’re working to ensure that you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his keynote. “We’ll start testing support for work accounts soon.”
In October 2020, all new Oculus Quest users have been forced to have a Facebook account in order to use their devices. This meant that deleting your Facebook account would also delete any in-game achievements or purchases you made on the device. Older Oculus accounts must be linked to a Facebook account by 2023. Facebook’s new policy will override this change.
If you already have an Oculus Quest, you may be able to delete it endangering children, destroying democracy Social media account without losing access to the content you paid for! Goodbye forever. It’s not certain when these changes will be made so I would keep your account for now.
This is a huge concession in the midst of the company ongoing crisis losing young users on Facebook and Instagram. According to Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, young people have “a wide range of negative associations with Facebook, including privacy concerns.” [and] Effects on their well-being. ”
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Incidentally, not having to link your Oculus devices to a Facebook account might have been helpful when the company had a major service outage earlier this month. While offline games were functional, users could not access the Oculus store or play games that depended on Facebook’s servers. Let’s just hope these work accounts are less prone to server-wide breakdown.
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