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Review: We do not recommend the $299 Oculus Quest 2 as your next VR system

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> Part of that comes from Facebook's aggressive policy about making Facebook social media accounts (whose terms of service revolve around a "real name" policy) mandatory to use new Oculus VR headsets, including the Quest 2.

That's all I need to know to stay away from this. 300 bucks and you still need to use a Facebook account?? No thanks

Well it becomes even worst if you read further on, especially in the "Suspensions, invisible moderators, and rolling recordings" paragraph. Spooky

I'm no fan of Facebook, but as the article says, that's only relevant (currently) in Facebook apps like Venue and Horizons.

Could you think of a worse company to be managing your 3d porn viewer?

What's the best alternative that doesn't require a FB account?

I've been happy with my Samsung Odyssey. It requires a decent gaming PC running Windows, but no online accounts (unless you want to buy games on Steam, which you probably will). It has the "inside-out" tracking which doesn't require beacons, and the ergonomics and build quality and everything have been perfectly fine. You sometimes have to close the blinds to keep the tracking from jumping at certain points, but I'm sure that happens with any of the inside-out ones.

The upcoming HP Reverb G2 looks phenomenal.

I hope someone can figure out how to root it and wipe all the FB crap off it.

Facebook basically wants to build a low key version of the matrix

1 billion people on universal income, doing nothing except getting up, putting on Virtual Reality headsets, spending 8 hours in imaginary worlds, where Facebook tracks everything and keeps showing them products they can spend their Universal income on

then take a break for food

then spend another 6 hours in imaginary worlds

then go to sleep

A Human Farm. Facebook with help of VR 'entertains' mindless corpses

Universal income keeps them going along, and whatever is left they spend on pointless products advertised to them in FB virtual reality

The human-battery-ization will come with a software update. :)

I stopped using facebook entirely apart from keeping up with acquaintances once they implemented their asinine rules like you can't post some kinds of links in chat and other irritations that added up over time til i couldn't take it anymore and shifted my digital life to discord(which is gradually getting worse but not quite there yet)

I just want anonymous chatrooms where i don't have to be ME just to talk about coffee,tv and anime.

Hard pass on the Oculus VR with all these quasi draconian identity laws. i'll wait for someone to fork their OS so all these stupid requirements or maybe just give up on VR. affordability seems to be coming with a lot of risk to my identity.

For someone that worries about his identity that much I would recommend removing the 4 social network accounts linked, including facebook, from your public website. I would also check your FB privacy settings to remove photos, friend list and workplace history from public sight.

my social network info is highly curated. people are only seeing what i want them to see.

i need to maintain a presence there for social reasons and linking a website boosted my SEO nicely

however i do NOT want any gaming related info/shenanigans to leak to my public presence. that way lie sharks and dragons

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