I have a Quest2. They did briefly try that shenanigans, but the backlash was so great that they decoupled it again. I deleted my FB account and it still works fine. You still need an Oculus acccount, or whatever they call it now. I haven’t spent a cent in the oculus store. I bought VR Desktop on Sidequest, and use it solely for PCVR - mostly simracing. The native streaming, and Steam VR streaming are free, but they have too many compression artifacts imo. I get minimal Meta shitfuckery, so it’s tolerable for now.
It’s getting a bit long in the tooth, though, so I’m considering the Steam Frame if it isn’t too expensive (hope springs eternal), so I can ditch the company entirely.
I have a Quest2. They did briefly try that shenanigans, but the backlash was so great that they decoupled it again. I deleted my FB account and it still works fine. You still need an Oculus acccount, or whatever they call it now. I haven’t spent a cent in the oculus store. I bought VR Desktop on Sidequest, and use it solely for PCVR - mostly simracing. The native streaming, and Steam VR streaming are free, but they have too many compression artifacts imo. I get minimal Meta shitfuckery, so it’s tolerable for now.
It’s getting a bit long in the tooth, though, so I’m considering the Steam Frame if it isn’t too expensive (hope springs eternal), so I can ditch the company entirely.