But you’ll need a new Meta account instead
Come August, you’ll no longer need a Facebook account in order to use the Meta Quest family of VR headsets. Instead, you’ll be able to sign up for a new Meta account and then a Meta Horizon profile, with Facebook and Instagram accounts optional bolt-ons.
You won’t have to use Facebook or Instagram at all on the new accounts, but you can optionally link them if you want to be able to chat or play with friends from those services.
The Meta Horizon account will also let you customise your privacy settings, by letting everyone see your account, just friends and family, or no one at all.
I use a Valve Index on the rare occasion I want to hop into VR, but I’ve been tempted by a Quest 2 because it’s a wireless and relatively affordable piece of kitthat impressed Katharine when she reviewed it. What has put me off is partly the need for a Facebook account, but also just more generally the idea of handing data over to Meta. This news doesn’t really change that for me.
