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Quest: How Does Facebook Impact Quest Owners?
If you’re not willing to use Facebook, your rights and privileges were altered at the end of December in 2019. What does this mean to you — the Quest owner? What do new or potential Oculus Quest owners need to know about Facebook and Quest? Updated: 2020–10–16: This only applies to Quest 1. Quest 2 owners have no choice but to use Facebook.
You may have read my article:
If you’re considering an Oculus Quest and/or you have a particular distaste for Facebook, you may be interested in how refusal of Facebook use affects your ability to use the product.
Is Facebook Required To Use Oculus Quest?
No. You never need a Facebook account to set up, purchase apps/games or play your games.
At the time of writing, new Oculus Quest owners are required (and this is on the product box itself) to create an Oculus account. You are given an option to use Facebook as well. If you’ve created an Instagram account after Facebook’s acquisition, you are probably familiar with what that looks like.
