Oculus Home is collecting data for Targeted Ads?

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Oculus's services are always on and you should be concerned. • /r/oculus

When you install Oculus Home a background service with full permissions is spun up and never spun down. This service is used to detect when the rift is turned on so it can automatically launch the rift, but it is also used to constantly communicate with facebook servers.

Source: overview for WeAreVr-nn23

Now this should be concerning, if you look at Oculus' privacy agreement you will find these:

>Information Automatically Collected About You When You Use Our Services. We also collect information automatically when you use our Services. Depending on how you access and use our Services, we may collect information such as: >Information about your interactions with our Services, like information about the games, content, apps or other experiences you interact with, and information collected in or through cookies, local storage, pixels, and similar technologies (additional information about these technologies is available at https://www.oculus.com/en-us/legal/cookies-pixels-and-other-technologies/)

Considering facebook has a sordid past with recording and analyzing through phone microphones this should be concerning. A bit further in Oculus's privacy agreement you will find:

>How do we use information? >We use the information to do a number of things that help us provide our Services to you and our partners. Here are some examples: >To market to you. We use the information we collect to send you promotional messages and content and otherwise market to you on and off our Services. We also use this information to measure how users respond to our marketing efforts.

Seems pretty obvious what the end goal is (built in microphone into the rift).

tl;dr: When you install Oculus home and agree to the terms of service you are agreeing to let Facebook use any and all information it can glean from your machine/rift/microphone to better target ads/sell to third parties.

edit: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/legal/privacy-policy/
 
this is why lots of people went ape-shit over FB acquisition, we expected this much...

of course, you can turn it off, but if Oculus does not provide an opt-out option then it's a little too much of a hassle for most folks, and they might go for Vive if they offer even a little less intrusiveness.
 
Do you even have to ask? It's a Facebook product. Always-on monitoring of your activities (and monetization thereof) is built into the platform.

Why do you think Facebook wanted to buy this company in the first place?
 
CEpeep said:
Do you even have to ask? It's a Facebook product. Always-on monitoring of your activities (and monetization thereof) is built into the platform.

Why do you think Facebook wanted to buy this company in the first place?
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I am guessing as a hedge in case vr becomes the dominant form of Web interaction.
 
Chaos Machine said:
I am guessing as a hedge in case vr becomes the dominant form of Web interaction.
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Sure, but if my core product is about painting a comprehensive picture of peoples lives and I have an opportunity to put cameras and microphones into a room in their house (and have them pay me for it) I'm going to go all-in on that. If people actually want to use the product and it becomes dominant in its sector, that's just icing on the cake.
 
So they will have a virtual book of everything you want to put in, on, or on someone else face :(
The dawn of VR porn is theirs for teh fapping.
 
Yep, I ordered a Vive after this.
Am cancelling my Rift order.

Vive is actually 50% more expensive in the UK, but I cannot back Facebook crap.
They should rename themselves Facepalm.
 
Never was really interested in it other than a cheap toy. Not getting it now for sure.
 
HOLY CRAPOLA.

I always wondered why facebook would buy Oculus. Now I know fer sure.
VIVE it iS!!!!

Vive is better anyway.
 
Well, this is depressing. I've been looking forward to the Oculus for years, but I don't want to support this kind of intrusive BS. I assume you don't have to sell your soul in the same way with the Vive...
 
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