Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Meta kills Facebook account requirement for VR”.
No more facebook account requirement for quest two. We literally talked about this on last wan show yeah and uh. Apparently they heard this podcast and no one else has complained. No uh did i say good guy facebook. Finally, uh yeah, i mean it’s a good thing. It’S a good thing. I don’t think they did it out of the kindness of their hearts.
I don’t think this was a a good guy move as much as they saw it to be a logical necessity, moving forward, because there’s some really weird things like if you’re a company you want someone to set something up with with uh, i was gon na, say: Oculus, but if you want to set something up with the meta quest, god is such a terrible name. Um you have to set up like facebook accounts with real people’s names and assign them to those headsets. That’S really weird because it has to be like a verifiable name or you have to like trick them with something that sounds realistic, which is what, as far as i know, most like uh corporate outfits are actually doing uh, but it just it gets very odd.
And yes, you can buy whatever the enterprise one as if most corporations are actually doing that if they’re, if they’re small, if you’re like some giant massive corporation sure. But if you’re some small corporation you’re gon na go uh. No, i’m gon na buy the cheaper one and fakeo a facebook account and make it work that way.
Um plane chat is so mad. They’Re, like no lap’s memory, says that’s like saying good job to thanos for adopting a child whose parents he just murdered and – and they point out that, even though you no longer need a facebook account, you do still need a meta account which is owned by facebook. Let’S go um that that that helps a little bit i mean it’s, it is better um because you don’t have to necessarily like tie it to a public facebook account that, like has your name and everything on it, which is whack.
You can link your meta account to facebook and instagram if you want, so that’s that’s real cool hope, you’re stoked about that oculus account. Users will be able to continue using that account until january 2023. Then you will need to move to a meta account and a meta horizon profile.
I heard that’s the new meta to continue using the meta vr device with your meta boom hate. It hate it. So much join the metaverse um. As of now many users attempting to log in via facebook, have faced issues um some people reactivating accounts, use their quest to have met, have been met with instant suspension. It’S nice remember when we owned our software. We talked about that earlier.
Yeah remember when we owned our hardware beverage farms remembers um yeah, then there’s some notes about how meta’s next vr headset might be called the quest pro. The name was found in code from meta’s oculus mobile, app uh code name, project cambria, which is what i’ve heard of yeah has been shown off already and could be quest pro and could have full color path. Pass-Through capability, depth, sensors, yada yada. Some people are estimating the final retail price to be 800 to a thousand usd which sounds expensive unless they are fully planning on maintaining previous products. Along with this one mm- right, if they’re discontinuing previous products, it’s too expensive, they’re not going to launch it at that. Yeah um, but if quest 2 and quest pro exist simultaneously – yes, probably fine, then i could see it. I got to tell you: i don’t think that i’m going to be able to go to inside out tracking if valve goes inside out. I think i might just have to keep my i might just have to keep my index forever unless it gets wildly better yeah. Well, one of the things that it doesn’t work. Very so, for one thing: when you are swinging your arms around really fast and a lot, sometimes they can be easily carried outside of what can be tracked conveniently from a head-mounted device and number two. Is that? Because when i stream beat saber, i put on full body trackers, i i don’t. I don’t see any way that you would manage that with inside out tracking, not with tech.
We have currently um, but it may not be feasible to even continue to compete with meta uh in the space like i, i was looking at. No, they even are. I was looking at the market share numbers and it’s like not even on the same yeah. There’S a note in here that says, is meta going to take over the vr space they already have like it’s.
They, i hope valve keeps bothering, or someone else keeps bothering i mean there are other niche high-end headsets. There was one that we were talking about on lan show, i think, a couple weeks ago or a few weeks ago. That looks amazing, but it’s what it was like: two grand or three grand or something stupid like that yeah i, when i like pissed off the whole world um. So i think it was around eight years ago when i said that vr wasn’t gon na take off for five to ten years.
I don’t know if you remember that um and then it took about five to ten years and then it took off. So that was pretty cool um, but i i think the the like first jump was uh the the quest two, because that was really big right, especially when you mean the first quest uh. The first question: oh you’re, saying the the quest two is: it is the jump it hit. It hit pretty main line there.
Oh i see yeah i mean other other companies tried samsung. Had that weird, like thing you could put yourself in dumb. That was super dumb.
I hated that that just made people think vr was bad um but yeah with with quest two like what what was the one that went just like gangbusters was that quest one or quest two quest two launch date: yeah october 13th. 2020.. I think that’s right because uh kovid hit and then that christmas quest two just went crazy. They were sold out like everywhere. That was the first big first, like notable jump.
I think i called that a little that happened later than i expected, and then i think there’s going to be another one um and then i think, there’s gon na be another one after that, when companies other than just oculus start making headsets um. That, like can actually compete loud face bob on floatplane, makes a good point says: first, jump was when they dropped the price of the original oculus to 300 bucks. It still wasn’t mainstream, then yeah, and it still didn’t really pop off. That was a very good thing that needed to happen um, but for mainstream adoption, not for the health of the vr hardware market in general.
In my opinion, because it’s basically just subsidizing the hardware with your data, something that no one other than facebook has the capability or willingness to do yeah for sure. But yeah like quest two, that christmas was huge. The amount of quest two sales was monstrous um and like uh vr games actually started to sell like pretty okay, it’s cooled down a fair amount since then um, which is why i don’t think it’s like actually really here yet is because it has cooled down and, Like indexes are still like two grand and like it’s, it’s still a it’s still a bit of a rough space to get in um, but yeah .