The company formerly known as Facebook is now called Meta and the new name brings a number of new virtual reality ambitions. While the social media group’s Oculus Quest 2 headset is an integral part of their VR project, it looks like technology may break free from the shackles of Facebook account login in the future.
During the Connect livestream last night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is “working to make it so that you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account.” The Chief Honors also states that testing will begin shortly on selected accounts, with plans to roll out the changes across the platform “within the next year.”
As of now, the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset requires an active Facebook account to access the games and the device’s shop window. This obviously hurt users a little during the recent Facebook outage, as the separation from the servers turned the gaming PC glasses into an expensive paperweight.
Meta is made up of various other services including Instagram and WhatsApp, which means users may still need to sign in with an account from Meta’s spanning network. Zuckerberg didn’t mention a specific Oculus Quest 2 login alternative, but he acknowledged that “not everyone wants their social media profile to be linked to all of these other experiences.” So maybe in the future it is all you need to use a single Oculus account.
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