Remove Mandatory Facebook Login!
Remove Mandatory Facebook login in order to accept friend requests and use the Oculus app. I have never had Facebook nor do i want it. I just want to play vr. I don’t want to have to have facebook to enjoy my 500$ Virtual Reality Headset with my friends.
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Anonymous
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Jonathan Low
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****..... hurry up and remove your garbage *** facebook login so I'll go buy one of these things. I played some games on a first gen rift and wanted to buy one of these. But I don't think I will now. I don't even have a facebook account. Simply because I don't want one.
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Shalom Ayash commented
Absolutely
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Anonymous
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I also disagree with Isaac C. This would be like Facebook buying out all the grocery stores in your town, then telling you that you can no longer shop at any of them without signing up for a Facebook account. Would their ownership of all the grocery stores make their account enforcement okay?
As far as I'm aware, there is no other wireless VR headset on the market right now and there won't be anytime soon. This is because Facebook is selling the Oculus 2 for a price that is far cheaper than what anybody else could make something similar for. How is this possible? Because they're banking on everybody using their Facebook accounts with the Oculus devices. That's where they really make their money, not on what they are selling the headsets for.
Please don't just say "learn to deal with it". That essentially means we should all just lay down and let anybody and everybody (including Facebook and big tech) just run over us. Is that really what you believe? When do we all decide to finally take a stand?
On a more positive note, look around online a bit about jail-breaking the Oculus 2 in order to remove the Facebook requirement. Nothing is available yet, but there has been some good progress in this area.
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lauren
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I purchased this for my son. He is not on social media, nor do I want him to be. Please remove this and allow a general Oculus account.
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Mark
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I disagree with Isaac C. I didn't buy a Facebook device, I bought an Oculus device. The company was then bought by Facebook and so making it obligatory to log in through Facebook is unacceptable. My contract was with Oculus not Facebook. I do not want yet more Facebook snooping into my life. I barely use Facebook and will not use it just because Oculus changes ownership.
If this goes ahead I wil no longer be able to use my Quest. This is a totally unreasonable step that has NOTHING to do with customer service.
Let those who want to use Facebook do so but please, leave the rest of us alone. This is an unfair decision. Facebook's reputation for respecting people's privacy is poor at best. I hope one day the law addresses poor decisions like this and imposes a regulator to stop software/hardware and web companies from doing as they like without any redress for their behaviours.
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Bryan Azzy Spiegel commented
Facebook is either a social platform, or a universal authenticator. If the latter, you need real customer service, and proper channels to contact and arbitrate disputes with the company.
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Isaac C
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people complain about a facebook login being needed... on a facebook run company
honestly do you really really think it would work to tell them to remove it ? it’s like asking xbox to let you sign in with a sony account. infact it’s almost exactly like that. you buy a Quest made by facebook then complain about facebook asking for a log in on their own IOS. it’s just not ganna get “ fixed” so either learn to deal with it or go get another headset from someone else not made by facebook.
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Marko Manninen
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Planned to do multi-center psychology research utilizing VR environment, Oculus Quest 2 was the best option for gear. However, this is impossible with FB login requirement - problems from project management to data privacy issues.
Please release a higher price OQ2 version without FB requirement ASAP if this is an impossible upgrade otherwise.
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Daniel Gariepy
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It's not a privacy concern at all for me, It's a free speech concern. I'm worried that by tying an expensive product's usability to my status on social media it will cause me to self-censor. If it was allowed to make a VR specific profile separate from my general account that would solve my issue, or a profile for my dog, or a shared account with my girlfriend separate from both our accounts. but everything that would separate my personal views from being allowed to use my oculus seem to be against the terms and conditions of facebook and would allow the go around to be banned without notice and we would use our game library, and use of our device. Its really messed up that the future of your company will push away anyone with any right leaning views that may be on that edge of facebook allowable content.
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Noah
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Im concerned about how much of my data they will have access to. Nobody should have that much access to it, its becoming to the point where facebook knows more about me then my freinds and family im scared.
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Disappointed
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Was going to get two Oculus Quest 2 units until I read about the stupidity of requiring a Facebook login. I shouldn't need to sign into a Facebook account to use a piece of gaming/VR hardware. That is ludicrous and asinine. You made an incredible piece of hardware and then destroyed it requiring a software login. Bad move Facebook.
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Anonymous
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I am was hoping to get a Quest 2 but I am concerned with the forced Facebook account login. I want to take the unit camping with me and where I go there is no internet service. Also, what if the internet is down at home. I live in an area that is prone to power and internet outages. That would be one of those times where I would like to use it because nothing is working. I do not want to be tied to Internet to use the device. Please take another look at what you are doing.
Forcing a log in is a horrible idea.
Really bad idea.
Because of this is is keeping me away from buying one. Thank you.
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Anonymous
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I am was hoping to get a Quest 2 but I am concerned with the forced Facebook account login. I want to take the unit camping with me and where I go there is no internet service. Also, what if the internet is down at home. I live in an area that is prone to power and internet outages. That would be one of those times where I would like to use it because nothing is working. I do not want to be tied to Internet to use the device. Please take another look at what you are doing.
Forcing a log in is a horrible idea.
Really bad idea.
Because of this is is keeping me away from buying one. Thank you.
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MountaineerMama
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This, and the lack of ability to share games across family owned devices, is making me think I’ll go with PS VR. Just because my 14 yo can have Facebook it doesn’t mean I want him to.
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Jens
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I cannot buy this as a christmas gift for my son since he is not 13 years of age and thereby is not allowed to create a Facebook account.
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Anonymous
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This is a huge problem for content developers as well!
Small indie developers that have bought content and associated with company email addresses prior to this change don't want to sign up Facebook accounts associated to their work emails. In alot of cases their employees are forbidden to do so anyway. -
Anonymous
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Our customers are high schools, the OFB program is stupidly overpriced and not needed as they have their own tech support. This leaves no option for them as you can't have teachers logging into a personal Facebook account for their students to use.
Surely based on IP addresses Facebook can already link your accounts to mine data. This is threatening our whole business and Oculus' response of "Yes we see it's a problem but we're not going to do anything" is beyond frustrating!
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Anonymous
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Our clients are enterprises, which share the helmet(s) to several users frequently. How do you solve this with a FB personal account?
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Angel Stewart
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Find another way to collect the data than making this mandatory. Offer discounts in the oculus store for players with linked accounts or something, incentivize it. Linking social media to whether or not you have access to your game library is ridiculous.