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Can you not use an Oculus headset if FB servers are down? That’s absurd.
by wyager 5y ago
Can you not use an Oculus headset if FB servers are down? That’s absurd.
- rcarmo 5y agoSome preloaded apps work (like YouTube, Firefox), but stuff like settings, the lobby, etc., are very slow or display "Unable to Load" messages. Any game that relies on your friends list seems to freeze for a while, then try to carry on.
- Reubachi 5y agoYep. We've come full circle, where techies are rediscovering the original hatred for the Oculus, that it is tied to a social media walled garden, for some reason.
- boston_clone 5y agoI think you may need a refresher on their history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_(brand)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_(brand)#History When FB announced they would be buying Oculus, they promised that no social media integration would be required. FB breaking that promise is not the same as Oculus having that requirement from the get-go. What original hatred are you talking about??
- Reubachi 5y agoOriginally, you did not need a facebook account to use oculus after purchase. They framed this as "you do not need to integrate social media/facebook". This ^ means fuck-all, because at that time (day 1), their oculus services where hosted in the same infrastructure as their social media services. Last year, they got rid of "you do not need a facebook account". But in all situations since inception, all of your data is passing through the same infrastructure as facebook data. It may not be being exposed, or targeted for advertising, but this WAS a huge point of contention years back.
- boston_clone 5y ago> oculus services where [sic] hosted in the same infrastructure as their social media services with my second-hand knowledge from someone who worked for FB and assisted the Oculus team being folded in to FB processes/policies/tech, I don't think this is accurate, either.
- squeaky-clean 5y agoThe Rift headsets probably still work fine, but the Quest headsets require a FB connection to work.
- samstave 5y agoWell, You cant access a city if the freeway has been bombed... Remember the 'information super-highway'? Yeah it gets carpet bombed constantly....