Instead, a Meta account is required. I see what you did there.
I thought you were kidding until I clicked through. How is this better in any way?
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#32This is a bait and switch. There's no reason to believe that Facebook will remain benevolent in the future. They will switch back to requiring some thing they can use to collect and sell your personal data even if it's not called Facebook. That was the point of them buying Oculus. They never tried to make money on the hardware.
I'm positive they will still correlate activity from your Meta account with your FB. One possible point of this is to keep Meta users with access to their purchased content while Facebook maintains their ability to block/restrict user access on the platform.
But I don't have a Facebook account so what is there to correlate?
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#33Apple is coming for their metaverse.
You can't create an Apple ID without a phone number. In Germany, you can't get a phone number without government ID.
You can't install any apps on Apple mobile devices without an Apple ID.
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#34Metaverse is Zuckerberg's wet dream. I always remember Virtual Sex Scene from Demolition Man[0].
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#35Apple is coming for their metaverse.
You will need an Apple ID.
And it will have no adult VR content.
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#36You'll still need to add an email address, your name, DOB, a phone number, and payment info. To retain your privacy, you can easily create an email alias and put in a fake name and DOB. A paid Twilio number should work. A privacy.com (or similar service) should also work.
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#37Instead, a Meta account is required. I see what you did there.
To be fair: You needed an Oculus account to use an Oculus, just like you need a Switch account or a Steam account. Hardware with a digital store requires an account.
A Facebook account is much more restrictive than say a Steam account. Facebook tries to get you to use your real name for example. Who in the world wants to use their real name playing a video game?
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#38I guess that removes one block from us buying Oculus devices. I still have no clear idea how we buy them for a classroom, but I guess this is a good start. It still sounds like its a Facebook account in another form.
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#39Just after leaks of a killer VR headset from Valve? No thank you, Meta. For those not in the know, Valve is coming out with a successor to the Index headset called Valve Deckard. They'll probably announce it later this year. From the leaked information, it looks like an absolute beast of a headset.
Deckard Cain? Stay while and listen.
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#40> Your “Friends” will now become “Followers,” similar to Instagram’s existing model.
Don't see how this makes sense for VR, where you probably want to hang out with your friends and play games. Followers?