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Meta sneakily introduced “Platform Integrity Attestation API” which basically calls home to see whether the user has a valid license to play.
This means that to run apps user has to have online connection to perform an integrity test. Whether it’s only a test on launch or continues call home like Denuvo-like DRMs is not yet clear. This could also mean that modified headsets could fail to pass this test essentially closing down the device for modifications that could damage “platform integrity”. Not all details are clear yet but this doesn’t look good.
Currently it’s optional and up to app developers to enable it.
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No fucking way I’ll consider buying one now.
My consideration was off the table after Facebook bought Oculus.
Or be like me. Get one then Meta buys the company. Z_z
Bad luck man. I would have bought a rift if Facebook didn’t ruin it.
I always wanted one, but when they made it a requirement to have and link a Facebook account to use it I completely lost interest.
I have one. Not long after I bought it, it became a brick because it forced a software update that forced a Facebook sign in to use it.
Make a dummy one.
They make you send them your id…
No they don’t.
They took that out a while ago, that’s when I picked up the Quest 2. Honestly, it’s the best PCVR headset out there, and this article has nothing to do with PCVR, just their own platform. This won’t affect your ability to pirate PCVR games at all.
It seems (seemed) like a pretty good vr headset…just it’s owned by one of the worst companies and I have no interest paying them hundreds for that level of access to my personal information.
Guess I’ll save up for the Valve one
Or just pay $20 for one of the ones that you stick your phone in.
My phone always overheated with those
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😂😂😂😂
…and there goes my eagerness to buy the Q3. I loathe drm.
So glad I avoid Meta products. I doubt they will be satisfied until they can live sell your data and display ads while you use the product.
Those are two very different things. Advertising giants don’t actually “sell” your data, it’s really not in their best interest, they make money by being the only ones with your data.
So… they sell, lease, etc either your data or some value added bullshit services or products based on your data for a higher price due to monopoly?
No, they sell advertment slots to advertisers with promise of higher ad interaction, a promise they can keep because they target those advertisements to users that are more likely to interact with them using user data. User data isn’t sold, leased, whatever you want to call it.
Also, technically not entirely a monopoly because there are quite a few tech giants that operate like this. Oligopoly would be the correct term.
Who the fuck are buying shit from google and Facebook? No wonder fucking internet is going to shits
Google Pixel phones are the only phones compatible with GrapheneOS, so there’s one reason.
They’re also absolutely the best phones you can buy, in my opinion.
And you literally can’t buy phones that don’t have anti-consumer software.
No one sells the old Nokia bricks, and even if they did, the networks they run on have been deprecated.
I haven’t updated my Quest 2 since it got a 120hz patch. Been blocking their servers via Pi-Hole and Oculess because fuck Meta and their shitty requirements. Btw, PCVR players, if you want more freedom with your Quest 2 devices you might want to check out Oculess and OculusKiller.
- https://github.com/basti564/Oculess - Removes account requirements from Quest 2 and disables telemetry/autoupdates.
- https://github.com/DevOculus-Meta-Quest/OculusKiller - Nukes the Oculus Dash and goes straight into Steam VR.
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Thanks. I’ll be checking these out later.
Why are all these companies hell bent on making more e-waste
Or, what the fuck do they think they’re protecting against?
Aaaaaaaaaand just like that, never buying a Facebook headset. Also because apparently they firmware updated to requiring a Facebook account.
Meh.
I’ll go valve index 2.0
they firmware updated to requiring a Facebook account.
I think this is wrong, at least on the quest 2, this used to be the case, but they got rid of this requirement I think a year or so ago.
If you have a source, pls provide it.
I dunno, I just remember reviewers discussing it. I don’t have facebook. But looks like they did in fact ditch the facebook account requirement… in favor of meta accounts https://www.tomsguide.com/news/meta-just-removed-facebook-login-requirement-for-quest-headsets-what-you-need-to-know
No thanks.
Index 2.0 when?
Whenever it graces us with its presence. lol.
We’ve reached a point that technology is not improving, but degrading – who on earth is going to accept this as is and let third parties acquire random information about them, including their credit card? I mean, if a hacker manages to bust (whatever feature that allows this bs to happen) and forward info to them instead of the meta HQ – they are going to have a heck of a honeypot.
I agree. But I worry that unfortunately this won’t stop most people.
Oh cool. Another reason to not buy one.
Another reason I would never buy a Meta product
Oculus was dead to me the moment it was announced Facebook was purchasing them.
This will be removed once thousands of little Billy or grandma’s can’t get that app to work, just like the Facebook requirement. Their support is a joke.
I had an app stuck in the update queue (still no way to see that queue). The recommendation was to do a factory reset. Not open up queue, restart download, not remove from queue - none of those things you can do! Good thing I had sidequest and was able to open up the quest taskmanger on my computer and do a force quit or I would never have been able to download anything again!
No way they let something that does that on purpose everytime the router goes out. Millions of factory resets? No, millions of returns.
I hope you’re right.
I can’t imagine what kind of a bad way I’d have to be in mentally to end up buying a Meta product…
Yep. Called it. Again.
Glad I got a Vive.
You’re still using a Vive?
Some people aren’t using any VR headset.
Oh, that’s fine! I’m just impressed with the longevity some people have gotten out of the Vive. It was a well built HMD.
LOL
Master class in destroying a product line.
Can’t tell who is more clueless, Zuck or Musk? They both seem to be hell bent on ruining their own companies.
The one thing I am excited about is eventually seeing Meta cancel their entire Quest division and clearing-out all these VR devices for pennies on the dollar. At which point I would expect some enterprising hackers find a way to run them off a regular PC without needing them to phone-home all the time.
The whole metaverse shtick was ridiculous. Nobody asked for it, and yet they spent billions promoting it anyway
Meta has revenue of over $100B. So even if they flushed $10B down the drain on this stuff (10-15% of revenue on R&D), that would be right in-line with industry standards. What’s what you can do when you have such a ridiculous amount of money.
