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Oculus Quest will no longer require Facebook account to login in the next year
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Not sure what the tweet was, but it was announced by Zuckerberg on Facebook Connect a few mins ago.
the language used in the tweet ("reducing" the requirement instead of removing it) seems weird but hopefully its true and its completely severed.
Facebook I'm still not giving you my money. This company is going to get broken up or investigated into oblivion hopefully in the next decade, imo I would be worried about investing in the platform if I was a fan of Oculus. I do not want to line the pockets, even indirectly, of people who are helping right wing extremists in the the US.
Quest is not going away. Microsoft was investigated into oblivion as well.... guess what happened to them?
This is utterly shocking, if true. The amount of ad money Facebook has been dumping into Oculus, and now to decouple the login from it?
I mean to my knowledge they didn't help Trump promote his hate speech and help foster the stop the steal movement (tho I am sure Microsoft has done a lot of awful things, after all all of our beloved consoles might be made using slave labor)
you're probably right and the government will do nothing like they've always done with companies like Facebook. I do not mean to derail and I can delete comments but I just cannot separate oculus from Facebook and the harm it is doing to the world.
so you'll still need a facebook account, it's just that it can be a separate one from your personal one?
Until they clarify, a massive warning: FB For Workplaces is a FB-controlled login system. Requires personally identifying confirmation before FB greenlights each account. If that's what this is, it's nowhere near the same as a wholly decoupled and anonymized login system.
You know how when you go to a site that you don't have an account on, and you can click "Create Account With Google" and it sets you up real quick-like? Probably something like that. If it's work-related, expect M365 integration and stuff.
right? Lol. get everyone in feeling safe and then forced email migration congrats you now have a facebook account
Yeah the language is still a little cagey for me to get too excited. Really been wanting to check out a Quest but the FB integration really puts me off. If this is actually true, and hits before PSVR2, I might bite, but I'm not giving FB any sort of benefit of the doubt. They exist for your personal information.
You're already able to use FB For Workplaces via Oculus for business though, so that's an odd "new" announcement if that's what it means.
Still, don't get excited about sideloading etc especially - you can already do that, and he just said it would continue. So Sidequest will still exist, but I don't expect them to do anything more dramatic than the status quo there.
but you already don't need a FB login with the business/enterpise version of Oculus
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So I'm very interested but it's still supporting Facebook as a company so I still cant see getting one.
