Meta announces that a Facebook account will not be required to use the Oculus Quest VR headset

July 8. (Portaltic/EP) –

Goal has announced that starting next month users of the virtual reality (VR) viewer oculus quest They will not be required to have a Facebook account in order to use it.

In August 2020, the technology company announced that, in order to use these glasses, users were required to log in to a Facebook account. Then, he indicated that those who already had an Oculus account had the option to log in with Facebook and merge both accounts.

Rather, existing users who decided to do not link them They will be able to continue using their Oculus accounts for two years. Also, Meta indicated that after January 1, 2023 it would stop supporting Oculus accounts.

After listening to the comments of the users of this service, the CEO of the company, Mark Zuckerberg, has indicated that he plans to launch new accounts to access this service through your personal Facebook account. In this way, the interested parties will not be forced to have a profile on this social network.

“This will give everyone more than one option to present themselves in the metaverse,” The executive director of the technology has indicated, without providing more details about the migration to this type of account.

What the company has indicated through a statement is that in August 2022 it will start implementing Meta accounts. Once users create these accounts, they must create a profile in Meta Horizon, your social profile in VR.

However, it has underlined that a Meta account “not a social media profile” rather, it simply allows you to log in to VR devices and view and manage your purchased apps in one place.

In addition, he has mentioned that in the future he will expand the functionality of the Meta account so that these users can use it to log in to other company devices.

The Target Accounts can be added to the Account Center of their social networks, Facebook or Instagram, “to unlock connected experiences through Meta technologies, such as finding your Facebook friends to play in VR or chat with friends on Messenger”, as he has pointed out in this writing.

NEW PROFILES IN META

Meta has indicated that when these new accounts are created, users will be prompted to create a Meta Horizon profile. These can be personalized, with name, profile picture, avatar and other details.

Using the same method of operation as Instagram, Oculus contacts will automatically become the users’ followers, although they can unfollow them at any time.

On the other hand, Meta account users will be able to choose whether to share their active status and activity updates, such as the applications they have or their achievements.

Between the privacy options offered by these accounts are the options ‘Open to all’, ‘Friends and family’ and ‘Only’. This setting can be changed at any time.

As part of this privacy setting, users will have the option to set their Meta Horizon profile to private. That way, the service will prompt you to review and approve follower requests.

In this case, followers will only be able to see who they are following and who is following them. However, people who don’t follow you will be able to see your profile picture, avatar, profile name, number of followers, and number of people you follow.

In this sense, Meta has announced that people between 13 and 17 years old will have their Meta Horizon profiles set to private by default.