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I would love the Quest and have multiple if it weren't for the Facebook requirement.
What do you mean? There is no facebook requirement. I don't have facebook.
But I do agree that Meta is the sour note. Luckily, there hasn't been any practical effect on the headset, or at least not a downside. Meta has had plenty of effect, mostly by way of investing unbelievable money into it. There is a reason no one else can keep up.
Basically if you are at all interested in the quality of experience in VR, you have to go with Meta, and maybe at some point they'll take advantage of that, but it hasn't been yet. And if they ever do, I have no problem cutting ties.
There was a period when new users had to have a facebook account, but it didn't last long. As you can guess, you were not the only person who didn't like that. I already had an oculus account before that, and I was able to keep using that the whole time. The name has been changed to a Meta account, but nothing else about it changed. It's just a renamed Oculus account now.
Did a little digging and it seems like the main barrier to entry in the way of plug and play would be setting up a Meta account and using your smartphone to set it up. From what I know about Meta automatically making an account for every human they are aware of and the fact that all Androids (and iPhones?) have Facebook pre-installed with pre-loaded wide permissions, that's effectively the same as handing Zuckerberg all of my personal information by buying a Quest. While researching, I found it incredibly difficult to find anyone serious about privacy discussing the matter without getting shut down with a "Who cares? They have your information already just give them more."
Soft pass until I know how to do it without leaking my life to the Meta gods.
Back in the day, people wiresharked it all and said nothing untoward was going on back then. And a meta account in this regard is just an Oculus account. It has nothing to do with facebook.
But yeah, ultimately, I don't care if other people don't want to use it. I only care if I want to use it, and I do.
Also none of my androids came with facebook and still don't have it. But I don't buy subsidized from carriers, I just buy the phone I want and use the carrier I want separately.
They got rid of that requirement a few years ago