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Oculus Users Won’t Need Facebook Accounts
According to code references from Meta's Oculus iPhone app discovered by developer Steve Moser, its upcoming high-end mixed reality headset known as Project Cambria will be called the Meta Quest Pro. And when it comes along you won't need a Facebook account to log in. Sort of.
In 2020, Facebook started requiring users to log in to their Quest VR headsets with a Facebook account. Users with an Oculus account had until January 1st, 2023 to make the switch. Much was made of the requirement which was essentially a back-end change. Oculus's login system predated Facebook's acquisition of it, so this was a way to get everyone on the same system. Facebook already owned the Oculus data and the new system did not require Oculus users to use Facebook.
And the system separated data from Oculus and Facebook. You could keep your VR name, unlike Facebook that requires real names, and you could keep separate friend lists.
Back then the idea seemed to be that Facebook was the company not the social network so it would be the name of the log in for everything. However since that time, Facebook changed the company name to Meta. And Tuesday Meta announced that in August new Meta accounts will be rolled out for logging into Quests that are separate from Facebook the social network. Current users will need to create a ""meta profile"" that month. Though people still using old Oculus logins can wait to do that until the end of the year. You'll still be able to link them to a Facebook or Instagram account if you want.
The change will have a few new features. People will be able to have multiple Meta accounts. Something Facebook doesn't allow. And suspensions on Facebook will not affect access on Meta.
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