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Meta to Replace Facebook Login Requirement for Quest with New Meta Account

Road to VR

Meta is finally pulling back from one of its most controversial moves affecting its VR users, which required all new Quest owners to sign up with a valid Facebook account in addition to forcing legacy Oculus account users to link to Facebook by 2023. You can unlink your Facebook account entirely . Facebook, Begone!

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Meta Plans to Reverse Controversial Facebook Account Requirement for Oculus Headsets

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Meta ( formerly Facebook ) created quite a stir in the VR industry when it announced last year that it planned to require Facebook account logins for new users. The company seems to have finally appreciated the negative sentiment generated by the Facebook account requirement, and this week it announced plans to reverse course.

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Meta is Deleting All Old Oculus Accounts by Month’s End, Severing Another Tie to “the good old days”

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Meta announced it’s finally closing the door on Oculus accounts by the end of the month, which means all users with old Oculus IDs will either need to migrate to a Meta account or lose access to purchased content, achievements, friends list, and more. This closes a chapter to one of the platform’s biggest controversies.

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How To Log Into Multiple Accounts & Share Apps On Oculus Quest

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Last month we learned that Oculus would be introducing multi-user support to the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2, allowing owners to share their headsets with up to three other accounts while preserving personal game data such as in-game progression, achievements, performance stats, and various other personal information.

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Introducing Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR

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Today we’re introducing Meta accounts: a new way for people to log into their VR headsets that doesn’t require a Facebook account. When we announced.

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All you need to know about developing and sideloading on Quest under the new Facebook account policy

The Ghost Howls

This week in VR has been pretty explosive because of the announcement made by Facebook that will force VR people to have a Facebook account to use their VR headsets. Thanking him for the information, I explain to you s ome clarifications about what the new Facebook account policy means for developers and sideloaders! Facebook account.

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Meta Explains Why Quest Headsets Stopped Working, Vows To Make Them "More Resilient"

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What Quest headsets do require, while online, is a logged in Meta account. We noticed that Meta's other services like Facebook logged all users out, and the 'Something went wrong' screen on Quest was actually the device's login interface. We’ll work to make it more resilient to this super rare condition." The article is quite accurate.

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