{"id":1826,"date":"2021-11-28T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/28\/will-the-oculus-quest-still-require-a-facebook-account-its-complicated-the-verge\/"},"modified":"2021-11-28T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T09:05:12","slug":"will-the-oculus-quest-still-require-a-facebook-account-its-complicated-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/28\/will-the-oculus-quest-still-require-a-facebook-account-its-complicated-the-verge\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Oculus Quest still require a Facebook account? It\u2019s complicated &#8211; The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Filed under:<br \/>Change is coming next year, but we don\u2019t know how much<br \/>Facebook (which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22749919\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-meta-company-rebrand\">now called Meta<\/a>) knows a lot of virtual reality headset owners hate logging in with Facebook. Requiring Facebook logins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/8\/19\/21375118\/oculus-facebook-account-login-data-privacy-controversy-developers-competition\">created bad blood<\/a> almost immediately and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/10\/15\/21518194\/oculus-quest-2-headset-facebook-account-suspension-problems\">accidentally locked some people<\/a> out of their Quest VR hardware in late 2020. And at today\u2019s Connect keynote, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted the restriction might be ending. But his comments raised more questions than they answered, and we still don\u2019t know exactly what they mean.<br \/>Zuckerberg mentioned the changes while talking about work applications for VR. Here\u2019s what he said:<br \/>\u201cAs we\u2019ve focused more on work, and frankly as we\u2019ve heard your feedback more broadly, we\u2019re working on making it so you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account. We\u2019re starting to test support for Work Accounts soon, and we\u2019re working on making a broader shift here within the next year. I know this is a big deal for a lot of people. Not everyone wants their social media profile linked to all these other experiences, and I get that, especially as the metaverse expands. And I\u2019ll share more about that later.\u201d<br \/>Oculus Quest headsets \u2014 which will soon be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/10\/28\/22751220\/facebook-portal-oculus-quest-meta-horizon-renaming\">known as Meta Quest headsets<\/a> \u2014 have required a Facebook account since 2020. (Until the Quest 2\u2019s release that year, users could choose to log in with either Facebook or a separate Oculus-branded account.) Some information gets shared across the services, and you\u2019ll see Facebook social options in VR, although you can maintain separate user profiles and friends lists.<br \/>This choice was so controversial that it apparently helped inspire Meta\u2019s rebranding. Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2021\/an-interview-with-mark-zuckerberg-about-the-metaverse\/\">told <em>Stratechery\u2019s<\/em> Ben Thompson<\/a> that the backlash added a sense of \u201curgency\u201d to get Facebook\u2019s name off the company as a whole. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth also noted the issue after Connect. \u201cAs we\u2019ve heard feedback from the VR community more broadly, we\u2019re working on new ways to log into Quest that won\u2019t require a Facebook account, landing sometime next year. This is one of our highest priority areas of work internally,\u201d Bosworth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/boz\/posts\/10114026973983491\">wrote in a Facebook post<\/a> today.<br \/>But there\u2019s a wide spectrum of possible changes that Meta could make, and only some of them would address critics\u2019 underlying complaints.<br \/>Facebook has so far committed to one limited change: if you use the enterprise-oriented Quest for Business program, which will begin testing in the coming months, you\u2019ll be able to sign in with Facebook\u2019s recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/business\/news\/introducing-products-for-the-next-era-of-personalized-experiences\">Work Accounts<\/a> system. Businesses had a similar option under the earlier Oculus for Business program, so this is more of a feature reshuffling than a practical advance.<br \/>Zuckerberg and Bosworth suggest that\u2019s not the only change we\u2019ll see, but Facebook is being cagey about the details. When I directly asked if users will be able to log into Quest headsets (or the Horizon \u201cmetaverse\u201d platform) using something besides a personal Facebook account <em>or<\/em> a Facebook Work Account, a spokesperson only reiterated Zuckerberg\u2019s statement.<br \/>Facebook\u2019s \u201cbroader shift\u201d could involve little more than renaming \u201cFacebook accounts\u201d to \u201cMeta accounts\u201d or \u201cHorizon accounts.\u201d And any version of it will probably ask you to hand some data to Facebook. But a more meaningful change could address a few major issues.<br \/>Meta is clearly aware of the critiques of its account policies. But based on executives\u2019 statements so far, it could be months until we hear more about its plans for addressing them.<br \/>Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week.<br \/>Please confirm your subscription to Verge Deals via the verification email we just sent you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/10\/28\/22751297\/meta-oculus-quest-need-facebook-account-login-password\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under:Change is coming next year, but we don\u2019t know how muchFacebook (which is now called Meta) knows a lot of virtual reality headset owners hate logging in with Facebook. Requiring Facebook logins created bad blood almost immediately and even accidentally locked some people out of their Quest VR hardware in late 2020. 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