Users of Oculus VR glasses will sooner or later be forced to create a Facebook account in order to be able to continue using their devices to the full extent. Existing customers can still play with their glasses until January 2023, as announced by the Facebook subsidiary Oculus.
Only then will support for all Oculus accounts be phased out. New customers and newly purchased Oculus glasses are bound to log in via Facebook account as early as October. Means: If you don’t have one, you have to create one.
According to the information, existing customers can register with their Facebook account at Oculus before 2023 in order to merge their Oculus and Facebook accounts. But you don’t have to.
According to the information, anyone who still does not agree to a merger of accounts in 2023 can in principle still use their glasses – including purchased content. Full functionality is only available with a Facebook account. Without the account, it cannot be guaranteed that all games and apps will continue to work.
Facebook justified the plans by saying that logging in via the social network would make it easier to find other VR players, to network with them and to play with them. Attention: If you do not want Oculus friends to know his or her Facebook name, you have to actively change this in the Oculus settings.
In principle, every player should otherwise be able to decide for themselves which information about their VR activities will find their way into the Facebook profile or the timeline – either via the settings or by restricting the visibility according to target groups for individual posts.
How exactly Facebook uses the user data when someone logs into Oculus with their Facebook account or merges the accounts is described in a detailed FAQ block in the support area of the Oculus homepage.
From: APA / dpa
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