This morning Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced they’re dropping obligatory Fb accounts for utilizing their Quest digital actuality headsets.
“You gained’t want a Fb account to log into Quest beginning subsequent month,” Zuckerberg mentioned. “We’re rolling out new Meta accounts tha you should use with our VR headsets as an alternative.”
He added, “This may give everybody extra alternative about the way you present up within the metaverse.”
The official Meta Quest VR social media famous the change with the message “You requested, we listened.”
Widespread VR YouTuber Nathie immediately replied asking for clarification as to the distinction between a Fb account and a Meta account.
After Fb acquired Oculus, they later rebranded Fb correct to “Meta,” which finally obtained Oculus and its headsets rebranded to easily “Meta”, like Meta Quest.
Since then any separation of Meta, previously Oculus, has been slowly eroded as the corporate and its merchandise are absolutely built-in into the Fb/Meta ecosystem – and finally their content material moderation.
This can be a level of rivalry for Meta Quest VR avid gamers and content material creators as a consequence of a earlier stance from Fb that having unfavorable strikes in your Fb account might get your Oculus / Quest account and bought content material eliminated, completely.
As with most social media coverage enforcement – we seemingly gained’t get clarification as to how completely different a Meta account is from a Fb account. The opposite remaining query is will Quest VR customers need to affiliate their new Meta accounts with a Fb account.