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Migrate your Oculus accounts to Meta this month or lose your gamesOculus accounts are being deleted March 29th
Oculus accounts are being deleted March 29th
Meta keep emailing me to tell me my Oculus account is going to be deleted on March 29th. It’s only today, seeing other people talking about it, that it occurs to me: this is not personal. Meta is perhaps going to deleteyourOculus account on March 29th as well, if you have one.You’ve got until that date to migrate your account, and if you don’t you’ll lose all your purchases.If youhead to the Meta siteand login with the email address associated with your Oculus account, you can go through the process of turning it into a Meta account. Aside from losing access to games and in-app purchases if you don’t do this, you’d also lose your existing store credits, achievements, friends list, and any content created with the Oculus account.I don’t think Meta deserves fairness in any circumstances, yet I’m going to show them some anyway: they announcedthis change was coming back in 2020, with support for Oculus accounts initially due to end in 2023.At that time, the switch to Meta alsomade Facebook accounts mandatory for using an Oculus headset, thus birthing my Facebook account, Jimmy Vrgoggles. The migrationalso locked a bunch of people out of their accounts. The Facebook account requirementwent away in 2022, but you still need a Meta account.In recent years, Meta’s big VR pitch - that we should be using it to perform work calls as legless avatars in some sort of Project Milo hellscape - has seemingly failed, despite absurd amounts of investment. Meta have responded as big firms always do withseveral roundsoflayoffs.Regrettably, the Meta Quest 3 isapparently a good headset.I will, I guess, get around to migrating my Oculus account. I’ve no idea what’s connected to it, but I suppose I wouldn’t want to lose whatever swirly particle effect I made in Tilt Brush eight years ago.
Meta keep emailing me to tell me my Oculus account is going to be deleted on March 29th. It’s only today, seeing other people talking about it, that it occurs to me: this is not personal. Meta is perhaps going to deleteyourOculus account on March 29th as well, if you have one.You’ve got until that date to migrate your account, and if you don’t you’ll lose all your purchases.If youhead to the Meta siteand login with the email address associated with your Oculus account, you can go through the process of turning it into a Meta account. Aside from losing access to games and in-app purchases if you don’t do this, you’d also lose your existing store credits, achievements, friends list, and any content created with the Oculus account.I don’t think Meta deserves fairness in any circumstances, yet I’m going to show them some anyway: they announcedthis change was coming back in 2020, with support for Oculus accounts initially due to end in 2023.At that time, the switch to Meta alsomade Facebook accounts mandatory for using an Oculus headset, thus birthing my Facebook account, Jimmy Vrgoggles. The migrationalso locked a bunch of people out of their accounts. The Facebook account requirementwent away in 2022, but you still need a Meta account.In recent years, Meta’s big VR pitch - that we should be using it to perform work calls as legless avatars in some sort of Project Milo hellscape - has seemingly failed, despite absurd amounts of investment. Meta have responded as big firms always do withseveral roundsoflayoffs.Regrettably, the Meta Quest 3 isapparently a good headset.I will, I guess, get around to migrating my Oculus account. I’ve no idea what’s connected to it, but I suppose I wouldn’t want to lose whatever swirly particle effect I made in Tilt Brush eight years ago.
Meta keep emailing me to tell me my Oculus account is going to be deleted on March 29th. It’s only today, seeing other people talking about it, that it occurs to me: this is not personal. Meta is perhaps going to deleteyourOculus account on March 29th as well, if you have one.
You’ve got until that date to migrate your account, and if you don’t you’ll lose all your purchases.
If youhead to the Meta siteand login with the email address associated with your Oculus account, you can go through the process of turning it into a Meta account. Aside from losing access to games and in-app purchases if you don’t do this, you’d also lose your existing store credits, achievements, friends list, and any content created with the Oculus account.
I don’t think Meta deserves fairness in any circumstances, yet I’m going to show them some anyway: they announcedthis change was coming back in 2020, with support for Oculus accounts initially due to end in 2023.
At that time, the switch to Meta alsomade Facebook accounts mandatory for using an Oculus headset, thus birthing my Facebook account, Jimmy Vrgoggles. The migrationalso locked a bunch of people out of their accounts. The Facebook account requirementwent away in 2022, but you still need a Meta account.
In recent years, Meta’s big VR pitch - that we should be using it to perform work calls as legless avatars in some sort of Project Milo hellscape - has seemingly failed, despite absurd amounts of investment. Meta have responded as big firms always do withseveral roundsoflayoffs.
Regrettably, the Meta Quest 3 isapparently a good headset.
I will, I guess, get around to migrating my Oculus account. I’ve no idea what’s connected to it, but I suppose I wouldn’t want to lose whatever swirly particle effect I made in Tilt Brush eight years ago.
