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Re: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

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Your ancient desktop CPU is powerful compared to Snapdragon 835 on Oculus Quest.

My ancient CPU is actually slower corewise than a Snapdragon 835. It's embarrassingly slow, about as fast as the first i5, if that. The snapdragon 835 is almost twice as fast as it corewise, actually.

Still outperforming on most of benchmarks. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2817815 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/3344943

Re: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

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don't you do that on other platforms like ebay and amazon?

You give your diver's license to Amazon?

if you're a seller I'd imagine you have to give a form of ID yes, as a buyer they have pretty much all my information from credit card to address of residence.

Re: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

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How hard is it to create a facebook account?

It's literally impossible, in case you haven't tried recently. If you don't want to send them a government issued photo ID, you can make a new account that lasts 10 minutes and then is locked on you and holds any accounts linked to it hostage as you can't sign in.

> literally impossible

come on

Re: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

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I don't see what the fuss is about. Why shouldn't Facebook try to provide the best user experience possible? We live in an increasingly connected world, so this tight integration between different products is absolutely critical to a positive user experience. Would people complain if any other company added Facebook login to their product? No!

Re: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

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No. This development was trivially predictable right when Facebook acquired Oculus. Which is why I bought Vive instead. You don't need to be a genius to see stuff like this ahead of time. All you have to do is refuse to be gaslit and be honest about the high-level drivers of corporate decision-making.

Why hasn't it happened to Instagram and WhatsApp then if it was trivially predictable ?

Because they have several European regulators breathing down their neck when it comes to WhatsApp at least. So it isn't as if Facebook hasn't tried to move into that direction.

Re: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

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Palmer Luckey, the original creator had this to say over on /r/oculus: I am already getting heat from users and media outlets who say this policy change proves I was lying when I consistently said this wouldn't happen, or at least that it was a guarantee I wasn't in a position to make. I want to make clear that those promises were approved by Facebook in that moment and on an ongoing basis, and I really believed it w…

Yeah like when the promised not to use any WhatsApp data. And here we are, I give it 1 year before we see commercials and deep integration with FB messenger. Who believes anything they say anymore?

Re: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

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Really? I have never and will never have a facebook account, so this expensive device is now a paper weight..

> now January 2023

Unless they want to sell it used, in which case the value tanks because starting October setting up an Oculus device requires a Facebook account. (And for that reason I stopped considering Oculus for my first headset)
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