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When Facebook suffered massive outages earlier this week, it rendered anyone with an Oculus Quest headset unable to play any of their games, as connection to Facebook is mandatory. Enter Oculess, a new sideloadable tool that lets you unlink your headset from your Facebook or Oculus accounts and still use it. In order to sideload anything on the device, you'll need to access Developer Mode, which can be done by giving a phone number or payment details (you won't be charged) to Facebook for verification.

Unlinking the accounts has the side effect of preventing the use of official Oculus apps, such as the Oculus Store or Browser, but the creator of Oculess has created a handy list of alternatives you can use to replace the disabled features. Most importantly, however, is that the hand tracking isn't affected by the removal of Facebook accounts, so games should still run just fine.

Oculess GitHub page

 

[Dinomite]

Imagine needing a Facebook account to watch virtual porn lol

 

[stanleyopar2000]

Now if someone could tell me a way to dump and patch purchased games so that they will work with Oculess, that would be awesome.

**COUGH** not here

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Amazing, but is the creator of this safe? I feel like FB is gonna be out for blood soon.

I don't think they have any legal grounds for going after him considering him and everyone using this own the device and are allowed to do what they want with it. Same reason you can't get in trouble for rooting your phone, or providing a root method to others.

 

[Xzi]

No kidding; I was just reading about what happened to the guy who made Unfollow Everything. Seems FB does not mess around.
https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

(Kinda makes me wonder why ol' FB Purity has managed to endure, though. What would I do without it?)

Holy shit, that's basically an admission that their entire business model is monetizing mental health decline.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

shoutout to the guy who made this fr, you the real MVP

 

[Jiehfeng]

I don't think they have any legal grounds for going after him considering him and everyone using this own the device and are allowed to do what they want with it. Same reason you can't get in trouble for rooting your phone, or providing a root method to others.

I don't think that matters, they would still probably pursue him with some sort of legal reason whether they would win or not. Sometimes a threat of a case is enough to discourage someone.

 

[MikeyTaylorGaming]

I had no idea that you had to have Facebook to use an Oculus. As someone who doesn't have a Facebook account how would I use it? Was there no other way than to create an account before Oculess appeared? Seems crazy to me ahaha

 

[neotank19]

Never have and never will use facebook. I hope more people come to see social media for what it is.

 

[Viri]

Now oculus quest seems a nice choice, where's that Facebook fanboy now.

I didn't think a "Facebook fanboy" would even be a thing. Zuckerberg is so fucking creepy, I cannot imagine anyone simping for him.

 

[Viri]

Never have and never will use facebook. I hope more people come to see social media for what it is.

I miss when internet companies warned you about giving out your personal info.

 

[ZeroFX]

I didn't think a "Facebook fanboy" would even be a thing. Zuckerberg is so fucking creepy, I cannot imagine anyone simping for him.

believe me i saw one simping for facebook some news posts earlier, can't remember which one sadly, maybe re4 remake? nice signature btw.

 

[tech3475]

I had no idea that you had to have Facebook to use an Oculus. As someone who doesn't have a Facebook account how would I use it? Was there no other way than to create an account before Oculess appeared? Seems crazy to me ahaha

They changed the rules a while back:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/oculus-...facebook-logins-the-company-announces.572185/

 

[TeleTubby666]

Never have and never will use facebook. I hope more people come to see social media for what it is.

Deactivated my FB and Insta accounts two days ago

 

[FAST6191]

Still not sure what convinced them they could pull of DRM of this nature, though I suppose they had to do it from the start.

Always glad to see a bypass for such things.

Also had missed the unfollow everything saga... Wow.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I don't think that matters, they would still probably pursue him with some sort of legal reason whether they would win or not. Sometimes a threat of a case is enough to discourage someone.

True. Well, it's open source and now that it's out in the wild, even if they get a C&D and choose to take it down, somebody else can continue keeping it updated. As much as Facebook may want it to be gone it'll be hard to get rid of it.

 

[Clydefrosch]

access to developer features becoming more convoluted in 5...4...3...

Guess what? I've been banned more times this year than unbanned. All 30 day bans.
I've never tried the headset during a ban so I might give it a go and see what happens.

All I post is proof, truth pics and videos from professionals which other social media sites dont have a problem with but its against fakebooks agenda so its an instant ban for 30 days. They are the only social media site thats not social.

If I remember I'll come back here and tell you how it went. Its 3:30am currently and I dont feel like having a VR headache this time of night.
Maybe tomorrow after my night of insomnia is finished.

mind posting a few of these 'truth pics' because I feel like people're gonna find them hilarious

 

[stanleyopar2000]

BMBF won't work on this. Not worth it

 

[HarveyHouston]

Facebook sucks, but I actually was intrigued by the Oculus. Seems interesting that you can use a Facebook device without needing a Facebook account now.

 

[Dracari]

BMBF won't work on this. Not worth it

it wont work cause Beatsaber wont work, BMBF itself shouldnt in theory, be relying on App Entitlement checks. but same cause of BMBF (and thus Beatsaber) and Virtual Desktop (last time i tried ALVR, it ran far worse than i ever did w/ early Virtual Desktop) and because of this strange itty biity (slight but noticable) Delay be it Airlink/"VD"/Oculus Link[USB]/ALVR etc, i cant just switch to PC-Beatsaber (despite i have it. and grabed it for co-op play w/ a friend that hates Oculus/FB with a burning passion.)

 

[stanleyopar2000]

it wont work cause Beatsaber wont work, BMBF itself shouldnt in theory, be relying on App Entitlement checks. but same cause of BMBF (and thus Beatsaber) and Virtual Desktop (last time i tried ALVR, it ran far worse than i ever did w/ early Virtual Desktop) and because of this strange itty biity (slight but noticable) Delay be it Airlink/"VD"/Oculus Link[USB]/ALVR etc, i cant just switch to PC-Beatsaber (despite i have it. and grabed it for co-op play w/ a friend that hates Oculus/FB with a burning passion.)

Doesn't BMBF use Oculus TV?