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Beat saber is a surprisingly good cardio workout - lots of squatting, moving around etc.
Does sweat not affect the Oculus Quest?
They are introducing a new workout pad (the pads are super quick to interchange).
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Now your Meta account can get banned for some reason. I assume the ToS will be very similar. It's a platform, you can say things on it, you can potentially abuse people on it. There may come a day where the world is utterly broken for the unaugmented, just a confusing sterile landscape camouflaged in QR codes. Getting kicked off the Metaverse will be a terrifying form of exile. But it will all be a private company's…
> There may come a day where the world is utterly broken for the unaugmented, just a confusing sterile landscape camouflaged in QR codes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
Would anyone recommend the Oculus Quest for getting exercise? This might be what pushed me to get it.
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I agree Zuckerberg had probably been thinking about it, particularly since Snow Crash is assigned reading for some of his employees. It seems, though, that the timeline was moved up dramatically to both distract from other Facebook-related news, and to escape from the toxic branding that is Facebook at this point. Switching to a name which is already a common english word with many uses, seems like an attempt to make…
This was in works since early 2019. Changing structure of a big company and all the bang associated with it takes long.
how so?
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Also if you have a Quest that is shared in the family, you don't need to worry about your family members poking around your FB stuffs anymore.
Can Facebook reliably find fake, empty profiles created just for Oculus?
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/p8dasg/ive_bee...
Is sounds like now you will need an Oculus account that is linked to your Meta account which is then linked to your Facebook and Instagram.
Facebook could just as easily change the policy again. Meh
I believe EU laws are the main driver for this change. As an aside, the Quest 2 would have been a break away hit, if they didn’t make the FB login a requirement last year though
Why?
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I agree with OP for regular wired Oculus devices. They are essentially monitors, and I wouldn't expect to have to have an account in order to use a dumb peripheral. For the Quest, you're right, it's more like a computer system with OS, apps, etc. I'd still rather be able to use it without an account, and only create an account if I wanted to interact with online services like apps and games.
Still! why must I log in to simply download an app!? Perhaps publishing an app is a more sensitive matter, then maybe it's worth validating things strictly behind closed doors... but to simply download and use software on a device I own, I can't fathom how we've slipped so far.
You have to pay them, they have to remember you paid them.