No you don't (officially), I also use a throwaway account and had no issues. There were a few unrelated isolated incidents in the beginning that were heavily publicized by the media but in the end you're at the mercy of the same AI ban bots just like with YouTube, Google or any other big platform so you have the same chance of finding yourself locked out if your behavior trips up the algorithm.
I recently created a throwaway FB account for "work stuff", and the amount of spam mail I'm getting now each day from Facebook to "engage" is shocking. Also: I didn't register the account with my real name and a different email address, yet Facebook magically featured out who I am and is sending out invites to the friends on my (long dead) real Facebook account. It's all creepy AF.
They are enterprise licensed headsets. You're not just going to walk up to Facebook and say "here's $800, give me a headset with no pre-installed apps".
You have to get approval to get access to Oculus for Business, then you purchase the headsets through a partner company (CDW, in my case).
But when you eventually get everyone to wake up long enough, concurrently, to do their jobs, yes, you essentially get A Quest 2 with no apps other than the browser installed.
Is pretty cool. The browser is built on Chromium, so it has the full WebXR API. I have a WebXR/WebRTC app that I've built for my company. We have a fleet of 15 headsets right now. We send them to our students taking our foreign language classes and they use them to practice with their instructor in 360 photo environments of popular tourist places in their target country.
>We send them to our students taking our foreign language classes and they use them to practice with their instructor in 360 photo environments of popular tourist places in their target country.
Man this is actually my number one idea for a VR app: VR language learning for more powerful immersion. Looks like I'm not the first to think of this I'd better hurry.
Imagine you're learning French and when you get to the word "voiture" a car materalizes in front of you, when you get to the word "cheval" you're suddenly riding a horse, etc. Now apply some SRS soup and you're learning vocab in an unforgettable way. I have no idea where to start but I want this.
There are apps on the market that kind of do that. They are in various stages of development, but most of them aren't really going anywhere. I believe the approach is fundamentally wrong, as it focuses on the low-hanging fruit of the problem of teaching people language.
We're the only company that makes the VR a part of an existing program of instruction, with instructors. All the other apps are self-driven, which doesn't really work for the vast majority of people. We are also the only app not leaning on speech-recognition, which also doesn't really work for language training (too many false-positives and false-negatives).
I'll second this. The vocab is probably the easiest and most straightforward bit to train right now. Flash cards have already all but solved that problem as they provide the simplicity, an easily optimizable metric, and a dopamine hit from numbers going up.
The part that's harder is getting people to fluent conversations, both on the comprehension and construction side.
I don't use Sidequest myself, but you can install any APK you acquire yourself, so it should work. All of the system features are the same, so hand tracking, Link, etc should all work.
No, I don't have any links. Everything that is out there is almost universally written for Unity and I don't do Unity anymore.
