Meta Quest Headsets Make Huge Quality of Life Change
Meta has revealed its new setup for Meta Quest players called Meta accounts and Meta Horizon profiles, which are intended to allow users the freedom, flexibility, and control to use their Meta headsets in ways that are most beneficial to them with deeper levels of privacy settings intended for stronger communities.
Meta accounts will be replacing Oculus accounts as the new way for players to sign in to their VR headsets, and the update is expected to roll out anytime from now until January 1, 2023. At that time, players using outdated login methods will be forced to replace their accounts with Meta, which will upgrade their «friends» to «followers,» similar to how it is on Instagram. However, where the Meta headset once required a Facebook account to sign in, that will no longer be the case.
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The reason for this update is because of Meta community feedback from players not happy with having to sign in to Facebook to use the VR headset. As a result, the update is intended to allow users to sign in to VR without a Facebook or Instagram. More than that though, the social aspects of the Meta Horizon profiles will continue to integrate the gaming experience with the existing social features of those applications for players that will continue to sign in with these platforms, such as being able to find followers to play with in VR and using FB Messenger in VR.
Meta assures players that the option will be available to integrate their social experience at a later date, even after initially setting up a Meta account. Whereas before users would lose all Oculus content when deleting Facebook, Meta now also assures players that whether they use Facebook to sign in or not,
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