I had the Oculus quest DK2 before oculus was bought by Facebook and enjoyed playing whatever people made, but the more Facebook locked everything down the less interested I became in VR.

Now you can’t even play with a quest unless you have a Facebook account, and it seems so easy to get locked out of your account on purpose or accidentally.

Are there unlocked VR headsets that I can just have fun with instead of being locked into one company and their products?

Thanks

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Oh, I do like that, thanks, that was a good and informative video, I’m going to see what else is in that sort of vein.

    That’s also great to know about the Oculus accounts, there are still a bunch of complaints about the quest 3 being locked out or unresponsive, but I see they’re more about technical issues rather than being locked out of the account.

    I remember when they used to use the Facebook accounts and I couldn’t believe it. When people said that they were locked away from the console that they bought, that was just insane to me.

    Thank you very much.

    • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If you really don’t want to be tied to any accounts, buying something like an HTC vive 2nd hand and setting it up on a linux computer using Envision is probably the most libre VR setup you can reasonably get that is both capable and affordable. Keep in mind the HTC vive is from 2016 so the screens and optics are not great but the 2nd hand cost should reflect that. The only account you will need if you want a good experience will be a Steam account since Envision borrows a driver from SteamVR to work, though once you have done that you could just log out. LVRA is a great source of info for this stuff.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Okay, cool. Thanks.

        I’m going to dig into that site, there is way more to this question than I thought there was haha.