For all the steps that the Oculus Quest has taken to make VR more accessible, it still has some major issues, at least not the lack of multiple user accounts per device. Currently, the Oculus Quest is limited to a single linked Oculus account.
Last year near the launch of Quest, Facebook announced that it was supporting multi-account “exploration”, but that was the last we had heard there until yesterday. In the blog post announcing the upcoming request for a Facebook account to be announced to your Oculus account, Facebook also revealed plans to support more users.
The blog post reads:
“And we plan to introduce the ability for multiple users to sign in to the same device using their own Facebook account, so people can easily share their headset with friends or family while keeping their information separate. “
While certainly an upgrade over the need to reset the entire device in factory to log in as someone else, which requires Facebook accounts to do so, opens the gaze of worms to the answer to yesterday’s news. That being said, the requirement is not surprising given the changing tide associated with Oculus accounts that no longer function separately.
This feature is definitely long overdue. Letting family and friends try VR for the first time always has some obstacles and explaining that they look like my avatar, see my name, or are identified as a white man named David at all times is definitely a bummer. Maybe there will eventually also be a limited ‘Guest’ feature, similar to how PS4s allow you to create Guest Profiles without adding PSN IDs. Maybe. Hopefully.
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