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Yes, you can make a fake account just for oculus. So?

by kungito 5y ago

mnd999 5y ago
Do you not risk being banned for being a fake account if the Facebook AI doesn’t think you’re social mediaing enough?
- SirHound 5y ago
  Yeah you do.
  - ChuckNorris89 5y ago
    No you don't (officially), I also use a throwaway account and had no issues. There were a few unrelated isolated incidents in the beginning that were heavily publicized by the media but in the end you're at the mercy of the same AI ban bots just like with YouTube, Google or any other big platform so you have the same chance of finding yourself locked out if your behavior trips up the algorithm.
    - flohofwoe 5y ago
      I recently created a throwaway FB account for "work stuff", and the amount of spam mail I'm getting now each day from Facebook to "engage" is shocking. Also: I didn't register the account with my real name and a different email address, yet Facebook magically featured out who I am and is sending out invites to the friends on my (long dead) real Facebook account. It's all creepy AF.
- KaiserPro 5y ago
  I've been using a "fake" account. I don't do anything dodgy with it, and my name is mostly the same as the credit card. They are much more reluctant to kill a dormant account if you attach it to hardware.
blensor 5y ago
Oculus does sell a version without the login restriction for around $700
- MikusR 5y ago
  Iirc those still need a Facebook for work account.
  - moron4hire 5y ago
    Only to manage the fleet of devices. The users of the devices do not need a Facebook account. In fact, there isn't even anywhere to enter one.
- Bigpet 5y ago
  those are locked out of any apps on the Occulus store though, right?
  - moron4hire 5y ago
    They are enterprise licensed headsets. You're not just going to walk up to Facebook and say "here's $800, give me a headset with no pre-installed apps". You have to get approval to get access to Oculus for Business, then you purchase the headsets through a partner company (CDW, in my case). But when you eventually get everyone to wake up long enough, concurrently, to do their jobs, yes, you essentially get A Quest 2 with no apps other than the browser installed. Is pretty cool. The browser is built on Chromium, so it has the full WebXR API. I have a WebXR/WebRTC app that I've built for my company. We have a fleet of 15 headsets right now. We send them to our students taking our foreign language classes and they use them to practice with their instructor in 360 photo environments of popular tourist places in their target country.
    - neither_color 5y ago
      >We send them to our students taking our foreign language classes and they use them to practice with their instructor in 360 photo environments of popular tourist places in their target country. Man this is actually my number one idea for a VR app: VR language learning for more powerful immersion. Looks like I'm not the first to think of this I'd better hurry. Imagine you're learning French and when you get to the word "voiture" a car materalizes in front of you, when you get to the word "cheval" you're suddenly riding a horse, etc. Now apply some SRS soup and you're learning vocab in an unforgettable way. I have no idea where to start but I want this.
Rebelgecko 5y ago
Since that's a violation of the TOS, you're taking a bit of a risk with that approach

Yes, you can make a fake account just for oculus. So?

mnd999 5y ago

Do you not risk being banned for being a fake account if the Facebook AI doesn’t think you’re social mediaing enough?

SirHound 5y ago
Yeah you do.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago
  No you don't (officially), I also use a throwaway account and had no issues. There were a few unrelated isolated incidents in the beginning that were heavily publicized by the media but in the end you're at the mercy of the same AI ban bots just like with YouTube, Google or any other big platform so you have the same chance of finding yourself locked out if your behavior trips up the algorithm.
  - flohofwoe 5y ago
    I recently created a throwaway FB account for "work stuff", and the amount of spam mail I'm getting now each day from Facebook to "engage" is shocking. Also: I didn't register the account with my real name and a different email address, yet Facebook magically featured out who I am and is sending out invites to the friends on my (long dead) real Facebook account. It's all creepy AF.
KaiserPro 5y ago
I've been using a "fake" account. I don't do anything dodgy with it, and my name is mostly the same as the credit card. They are much more reluctant to kill a dormant account if you attach it to hardware.

blensor 5y ago

Oculus does sell a version without the login restriction for around $700

MikusR 5y ago
Iirc those still need a Facebook for work account.
- moron4hire 5y ago
  Only to manage the fleet of devices. The users of the devices do not need a Facebook account. In fact, there isn't even anywhere to enter one.
Bigpet 5y ago
those are locked out of any apps on the Occulus store though, right?
- moron4hire 5y ago
  They are enterprise licensed headsets. You're not just going to walk up to Facebook and say "here's $800, give me a headset with no pre-installed apps". You have to get approval to get access to Oculus for Business, then you purchase the headsets through a partner company (CDW, in my case). But when you eventually get everyone to wake up long enough, concurrently, to do their jobs, yes, you essentially get A Quest 2 with no apps other than the browser installed. Is pretty cool. The browser is built on Chromium, so it has the full WebXR API. I have a WebXR/WebRTC app that I've built for my company. We have a fleet of 15 headsets right now. We send them to our students taking our foreign language classes and they use them to practice with their instructor in 360 photo environments of popular tourist places in their target country.
  - neither_color 5y ago
    >We send them to our students taking our foreign language classes and they use them to practice with their instructor in 360 photo environments of popular tourist places in their target country. Man this is actually my number one idea for a VR app: VR language learning for more powerful immersion. Looks like I'm not the first to think of this I'd better hurry. Imagine you're learning French and when you get to the word "voiture" a car materalizes in front of you, when you get to the word "cheval" you're suddenly riding a horse, etc. Now apply some SRS soup and you're learning vocab in an unforgettable way. I have no idea where to start but I want this.

Rebelgecko 5y ago

Since that's a violation of the TOS, you're taking a bit of a risk with that approach