Facebook Accounts Will No Longer Be Required to Log Into Meta Quest VR Headsets

Facebook Accounts Will No Longer Be Required to Log Into Meta Quest VR Headsets 

The company detailed its new Meta Accounts, Meta Horizon profiles, other updates

When then-Facebook revealed in August 2020 that starting in October of that year, people using Oculus devices for the first time would be required to login with a Facebook account, it was not a popular decision. Meta reversed that decision Thursday.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post, “You won’t need a Facebook account to log into Quest starting next month. We’re rolling out new Meta Accounts that you can use with our virtual reality headsets instead. This will give everyone more choice about how you show up in the metaverse.”

Meta Accounts enable people to log into their VR devices and view and manage their purchased applications in one place, as well as giving them the choice of whether to incorporate Facebook and/or Instagram into their VR experiences.

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