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It's pretty bad as a customer too : When I bought the CV1 Oculus Rift, it listed Windows 7 as being compatible, and no requirements of a Facebook account. Now
by BlueTemplar 4y ago
It's pretty bad as a customer too :
When I bought the CV1 Oculus Rift, it listed Windows 7 as being compatible, and no requirements of a Facebook account.
Now the Oculus software has been "upgraded" by dropping compatibility with Win7, and the support for using it without a Facebook account will end on 2023-01-01.
Where I suspect this violates EU consumer laws, is that Oculus/Facebook/Meta doesn't provide me with an option to keep running old versions of Oculus software (offline if need be) that work on Win7 and without a Facebook account, along with apps I bought from or outside the Oculus Store !
Also, not much advance warning (if any??) between starting to warn about the end of Win7 support on the box and dropping Win7 support - we got plenty of time with the mandatory Facebook account requirement, though I haven't checked whether it was the case on the boxes ?
And the less said about Oculus promise of CV1 Rift Linux support that is still nowhere to be seen 6 years after release, the better. And this would have reduced developer friction a lot !