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Facebook now Introduce Messenger Trust me on my Oculus Quest and Quest 2 headphones, I swing too.
Messenger is only available to those who have already linked their Facebook account to their Quest or Quest 2 headset. Therefore, those who stick to their separate Oculus account integration are safe for now. But if you’re one of those who went to the past and bought Oculus headphones OctoberYou may already know that you need to log into your account on Facebook first. It is understandable if these advertisements are a major attempt by Facebook to grab your gadgetCollect more of your data.
Adding Messenger to Oculus goes against the whole purpose of VR: immersion. Not only do I want to read messages in my headphones, but how should someone reply in Messenger while wearing Quest?? Facebook said in its press release that users can write messages by typing them into virtual reality, choosing something prescribed, or using the voice-to-text feature and has not given any other details. Typing with the joystick was neither fast nor comfortable, no one could type without looking at the keyboard, and the speech to text conversion is not 100% accurate. It doesn’t always explain Regional dialects or Speech disorders.
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And I mean, why would you want to chat with your Messenger friends in VR when VRChat Existing? Thank goodness Facebook gives you the option to log out of Messenger on the Oculus headset. This is the best – the biggest problem here is Facebook’s tendency to collect data.
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User request When you link Oculus to your Facebook account, social media already have access to it Your VR gaming habitsBut Facebook Collect Also the data from his messenger app.
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When Apple released one “”Data protection nutrition labelsFor the App Store last yearHit a CVS-sized receipt on Facebook Messenger. First discovered 9 to 5Mac, it turns out Facebook collects a ridiculous amount of data about its users, including: sensitive information for product customization, analysis, and app functionality; Financial information For external advertisers and the ambiguous “Other Items” category; And device ID data.
If you use Messenger on Oculus, Facebook may also collect data from there. According to Apple’s privacy policy, Facebook collects data about users’ game content. when The company announced for the first time Oculus users must log into their Facebook accounts and have verified that they are collecting “Relevant Content” data for users in “Oculus Activity”. This data is used to recommend Oculus events or VR apps.
Oculus is another way for the company to collect more data about its users, and adding Messenger to the VR platform gives the company more ways to do that. Combine everything with Facebook Bad privacy recordingAnd frankly, All the VR gaming fun consumed with the Oculus headset.
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