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Oculus, Beat Saber and the Future of Custom Songs
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.
Let’s start off by looking at the changes in the Terms of Service to see if there is anything interesting here.
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 yourself, click this link.
Most of it is minor changes in verbiage to make it more align with Facebook.
First and foremost; if you’re using a Facebook account for your Quest, you are fully expected to comply with all Facebook Terms of Service. Since no one is going to click through and read it, I’ll give you some interesting bullet points.
- You must be over 13 to use Facebook and hence Oculus VR. It has always been part of the Oculus TOS, but now it is a hard, fast rule because Facebook requires it. This is something every parent that owns a Quest and has family members under 13 needs to know.
- You cannot use Oculus VR if you’ve ever had your account previously disabled for violations of Terms and Policies.
- Facebook requires your true identity to be attached to your account — this means no more burner accounts, “Fakebook” accounts or “token” accounts.
