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If Logged Into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used For Ads (uploadvr.com) 36

Posted by BeauHD from the day-we-all-feared-would-arrive dept.
"Facebook will now use information about your Oculus activity, like which apps you use, to help provide [...] more relevant content, including ads" -- assuming you've connected your Oculus ID to your Facebook account. UploadVR reports: The company is updating its privacy policy and rolling out new social VR features backed by your "Facebook identity" with the intention of "clarifying how Oculus data is shared with Facebook to inform ads when you log into Facebook on Oculus." "These changes won't affect third-party apps and games, and they won't affect your on-device data," according to the company. For years now, buyers of Facebook VR headsets needed an Oculus ID to operate the system that could be optionally connected to your "Facebook identity" -- in other words, you could connect the two accounts. More recently, to access certain features like concerts in Venues, Facebook started requiring the use of the Facebook account. According to the company's terms, this account "must ... use the same name that you use in everyday life."

With this most recent change "If you choose not to log into Facebook on Oculus, we won't share data with Facebook to allow third parties to target advertisements to you based on your use of the Oculus Platform," according to Facebook. But denying that connection may also make it difficult to connect with others using virtual reality on Oculus systems. [...] Facebook suggests that for those who log into the account it will target "relevant content" based around "Oculus activity" including "which apps you use" with examples given including "Oculus Events you might like to attend or ads for VR apps available on the Oculus Store." The company says this "won't affect your on-device data" which, based on our previous reporting, Facebook says is the location where "3D maps of your environment" are kept. "We don't collect and store images or 3D maps of your environment on our servers today -- images are not stored anywhere, and 3D maps are stored locally on the headset [for Quest] and on your local PC, where you have access to delete it [for Rift S]," a Facebook representative originally wrote in an email. Facebook also says the changes "won't affect third-party apps and games" and "if you choose not to log into Facebook on Oculus, we won't share data with Facebook to allow third parties to target advertisements to you based on your use of the Oculus Platform."
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  • need to log into Facebook?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward
      So your mom can share in your VR incest-porn fantasy.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AHuxley ( 892839 )
      An ad company has to ad...
      The games are just something to do between the ads.

    • need to log into Facebook?

      It doesn't. But Facebook has a universal login these days, so people use it across a lot of websites for better or (most likely) for worse.

  • I was cleaning space for a VR setup, before I jumped the gun and got one.

    Well dodged that bullet

  • "We can sell up to 80 percent of a user's visual field before inducing seizures!"

  • This is why I didn't link my Oculus account withFB (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Hadlock ( 143607 ) on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:44PM (#59510254) Homepage Journal

    You have two options when getting a Quest:
     
    1. Setup an oculus account, link it directly to your facebook account
    2. Setup an oculus account, link it to your email
     
    I created a new email and linked my oculus account with that, forward the emails to a more regularly monitored email account.
     
    It was always obvious that your oculus data would be cross referenced with your facebook account data, at least internally, at facebook. Of course. Why else would facebook wager $2 Billion (with a b) to buy the company and then funnel additional funds, taking a loss on the product up until this point? For the marketing dollars. If you own VR, you own the next generation of consoles, and can finally do what's never been done, fully integrate console user ids with social media IDs. With that kind of user data you can very specifically target specific types of users and charge more for those kinds of targeted ads.

  • It actually works if you have a big head with huge IPD... unlike oculus.

    My headset is covered in dust because watching movies on it kinda sucks and the games aren't all that great either. You can hack even generic headsets to work with oculus apps, unless something has changed recently.

    • Yeah the Pimax can also work with Occulus (And Vive) , but holy crap its fiddly. Amazing headsets, absolutely garbage fire drivers

  • Yes, that right! Any app passing data to FB should be purged.

  • i'm surprised, i would have thought they were already doing that, but they are just only starting now?
    doesn't sound believable.

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