If it still requires a Facebook account, no way. I walked away from that site 8 years ago and never missed it once.
It’s literally not, though. You don’t have to have a social media profile. It’s the same as having a Vive account on an HTC headset.
You can create a dummy account and fill it with bogus data. I even share mine so it doesn’t even belong to a single person.
That’s a bold move, Cotton. The account would get flagged and suspended fairly quick, me thinks.
It’s been almost a year and it still works fine. I even set it up as a dev account to sideload apps and make calls to the wit.ai api in a few projects.
Dummy accounts work for something like Lemmy but when you’re playing with big tech corpos in 2024, it doesn’t matter how dummy you make it, they will know it’s you.
Can it be jailbroken and used without a fb account?
I bought a quest 2 a few years ago. I searched for hours and hours to try and get it to work with no FB account. Best I found was that you can sideload APKs to it… with a Facebook account.
Eventually broke down and temporarily made a Facebook account to at least try it. Was pretty unimpressed with the content which was meager in comparison to PCVR. Ended up returning it and deleting Facebook account.
In my opinion the experience is not worth making a Facebook account for even if the headset was free.
If you want to get into VR on the cheap get a windows mixed reality headset off eBay. Most of them aren’t as good of a headset as the quest 2. But it will probably be comparable if you’re streaming most of your content from PC anyway. And you’ll avoid Facebook’s shit.
Be forewarned though windows mixed reality headsets don’t yet work on windows LTSC or Linux :(. (Though maybe windows 11 LTSC later this year?) So you’ll have to use the garbage version of windows to use it.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24010787/microsoft-windows-mixed-reality-deprecated
WMR will be discontinued in the future. On quest you can use pass through from your pc and technically you don’t need facebook account only meta account that can be disconnected from facebook.
I have a WMR device and I regret it.
So many games simply do not support it, I’d have been better off with a Valve index that seems to work with most PC titles.
Not even if they gave me $200
I would use it for like 1 game on the quest store and more portable/wireless VR on PC. Even though my Index, is superior in almost every way, an easy headset to give to a visitor would be nice.
I probably wouldn’t pay $200 for one, but if a friend was getting rid of one for $50-100 I would likely snatch it up.
Because I try not to let my personal opinion dictate what I post here. Lots of people do care about this even if I don’t, but I couldn’t help commenting on it.
It is, but it’s not just $200, it’s $200 and a Meta account. I’m not making a Meta account, so I’m not buying this.
If it was usable w/o a Meta account, I’d probably get it.
That’s the right price range, for VR to properly catch on.
Shame it still owns you rather than vice-versa.
If I wasn’t locked into the Meta ecosystem I’d buy it.
Wait, I don’t get it. Your comment implies you are locked in to the Meta ecosystem, so wouldn’t this be a fantastic option for you?
I’m not interested because it requires a Meta account, which I’m unwilling to create.
Oops, my bad. I meant “it” or “if I wouldn’t be locked into the Meta ecosystem by buying it”. English is hard.
Ah, that makes way more sense. I’m in the same boat, I’d totally buy this if I didn’t need an account at any Meta service to use it (I’d even pay a bit more for it). But since it does, I just pretend the product doesn’t exist.
And as a native English speaker, I totally agree, English is hard.