Exactly!!!
My first VR HMD was the Oculus Rift and now I have the Oculus Quest. I went with Oculus options because they were cheaper. However, I didn't want to be locked in to a specific manufacturer so while there where Oculus exclusive games that I was interested in (Lone Echo, Stormland and so on) I abstained from buying them. Simply put, I'm not buying anything from the Oculus store in part due to trust issue but I also don't know that my next VR HMD will be from Oculus.
A side note,...
People who have used / bought a VR HMD know or eventually come to understand that these things are like typical PC peripherals. Its not one and done, you'll eventually upgrade to a new VR HMD. Therefore there is no reason to use something like this Facebook / Oculus fiasco as an excuse to opt out of VR,....although a lot of people are oddly enough just looking for excuses.
No excuse?
This is a company that manages to follow you regardless of whether you are logged in, regardless of whether you should or shouldn't have your privacy at any given time. Mark doesn't give a damn about you, but does care about your data. Your burner account is just as valuable as any other to him. Now you're sharing tons more data with it, because the headset is full of sensors and other data. They can connect the dots, don't you worry. Almost every service can link accounts to users based on something as simple as dynamic IP adresses already. Wake up. These data models are far bigger than the account itself.
Forgot Cambridge Analytics already? It didn't matter if you had a burner account or not. It doesn't even matter if you actually are on FB. But because so many fools ARE, they can still connect the dots and data mine on you regardless. All that is required is one facebook member to share some piece of info.
But aside from that. I don't see myself logging into Razer Synapse for peripheral use, and neither do I see myself doing so for something stupid like an HMD. The question that needs to be asked is why they demand it, and why it is not optional. That alone should speak volumes and be a big red flag. Matter of principle too. 'Oh, I can still go through SteamVR Store'... as if that is somehow not a fat warning sign and likely to get a mandatory FB login regardless. Not today... tomorrow. When you've invested in the HMDs just a bit more.
Burner accounts are a 1999 Hotmail approach. Wake up, the world is smarter than you by now, they know the trick.
I disagree... It lasted longer than his job at Oculus after they bought it. I really don't see what the big deal is over linking it to your FB account. I mean I do nothing with my FB account (my wife created for me years ago..)... I don't buy games on the oculus store when they are on Steam. I've only bought the Darth Vader eps. I still have the 15 dollar store credit from when their store went down for a few days, years ago... lol Guess what when their store was down I could still log into SteamVR and play games.
I have to say I'm pretty excited about OC7. There have been leaks of a new Quest II.
Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing. Even just the fact that data ownership isn't in your own hands but, due to the login and connected terms, automatically belongs to FB, should be enough to scare you away. Burner account? Its irrelevant. You're steadily filling it up with your data - and its actual, true, valuable data. Not nonsense posts, but actual sensor data. You're not getting paid for that either.
