Facebook-Oculus login rift grows as sales stop in Germany
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A conference attendee tries out an Oculus VR headset
Facebook has halted sales of Oculus Rift and Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets to customers in Germany.
鈥淲e will continue supporting users who already own an Oculus device and we're looking forward to resuming sales in Germany soon," it added.
It comes as the German data regulator criticises the decision to require Oculus users to move to Facebook logins for their headsets by 2023.
Facebook purchased Oculus, a VR start-up, in 2014.
The annual Oculus conference, now called Facebook Connect, is due to go ahead in an online-only format on 16 September.
On 18 August, Oculus
from October 2020, new users can log in to their devices from a Facebook account only
existing users will have the option to merge their Oculus and Facebook accounts 鈥 but they too will need to log in from a Facebook account from 1 January 2023.
The headsets will still work for users who choose not to log in at all, however.
But one game reviewer left a message on the company鈥檚 website, saying they would buy no more software for their Quest headset.
鈥淚 no longer trust Oculus,鈥 .
'Despise Facebook'
about the change has received a flood of comments 鈥 many of them negative.
鈥淚鈥檓 not OK with this,鈥 one user wrote.
"I despise Facebook."
And Hamburg鈥檚 data protection commissioner criticised the policy to German news site Heise.
成人快手 News has contacted the Irish data protection authority, Facebook's primary data watchdog in the EU, for comment.
- Published27 September 2019
