Facebook owner Meta announces new virtual reality login system


 A participant wearing a virtual reality (VR) headset at Meta Platforms Inc. on June 16, 2022 at the Viva Technology Innovation and Startup Conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France Trying out a VR app at the booth. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File photo.


July 7 - Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) is changing the way users log into its virtual reality headsets, returning to a previous change of opening an account from the company's flagship Facebook app device while maintaining social connections there the link to.


The company will roll out new "meta accounts" starting in August, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Thursday.


The social media giant announced plans last year to drop the Facebook login requirement after a backlash from users who previously had separate accounts with Oculus, the virtual reality company Meta, then known as Facebook, acquired in 2014 with access to headsets .


With a new login structure, Meta accounts control device-level access and manage app purchases, while Meta Horizon profiles represent a user's social presence in virtual reality and associated usernames and avatars, the company said in a blog post .


People can also connect their profiles in a unified Meta Accounts Center that integrates existing social connections from Facebook, Instagram or Messenger into their virtual reality experience, it said.


For accounts not added to Accounts Center, the company will only combine user data across apps to count users and enforce security rules, a spokesman told Reuters.


According to a copy of the post seen by Reuters, product chief Chris Cox mentioned the change in a memo last week, which he dubbed the "simile project," saying it would "enhance continuity across the virtual world." .


Meta has pushed to integrate accounts and other products into its "family of apps," providing users with cross-app functionality and allowing companies to consolidate data about their behavior in different contexts.


The company announced plans to unify the messaging structure of its apps in 2019, and later that year launched a payments service, now called Meta Pay, that allows users to process transactions on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.


💌 Resources and references: reuters.com 🔊 Facebook owner Meta announces new virtual reality login system..


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