Oculus, Beat Saber and the Future of Custom Songs

Shane R. Monroe
11 min readOct 8, 2020

Things are about to change regarding Oculus, Facebook and potentially Beat Saber. Let’s talk about what we know — and what we don’t know — about what’s coming down the pike in less than a week. Updated: 2020–10–18 with some new information.

We are just a few days away from an important change for the Oculus VR platform. Not only is Oculus doing a big change to the Terms of Service it expects users to abide by on October 11th, but on the 13th the Oculus 2 headset is released — which also signifies the death of all new Oculus accounts in favor of requiring all new hardware and users to use real, verifiable Facebook accounts.

Facebook Requirements May Stop You From Multiplayer

The short version; everything Facebook requires of you as a member? Oculus now requires of you as a member.

Here we go … changes you need to know about …

Let’s start off by looking at the changes in the Terms of Service to see if there is anything interesting here.

Someone has to do the heavy lifting … Here are the changes (well, some of them)

So I poured through the whole thing, looking for anything particularly interesting as it may pertain to this topic. By the way, if you want to see the changes for…

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Shane R. Monroe

I write, blog, record and review anything that interests me — including humanity, parenting, gizmos & gadgets, video games and media.