Soon VR fans will no longer need to have a Facebook account in order to use Oculus Quest 2 headsets.
The news came as Facebook – the parent company of the titular social media platform and owner of Oculus – officially rebranded itself as Meta at this year’s Facebook Connect event, as it focuses on moving from being a social media company to becoming a “metaverse” company.
As both VR and AR are major components that will bring about this reality, the company is looking to shake up how it operates VR. During the Connect live stream yesterday (October 28), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is “working on making it so you can log in into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account”, adding that tests involving select accounts will begin soon before being fully implemented “within the next year”.
It was also announced that the Oculus Quest headsets would also be rebranded as Meta Quest, with CTO Andrew Bosworth confirming that the Oculus branding will be phased out.
While pitched as a wireless and accessible VR headset, one of the most divisive aspects of Oculus Quest 2 has been the requirement for a Facebook account to log in. That didn’t stop a 17-year-old hacker creating a piece of , albeit with considerable loss of functionality.
