Since the arrival of the account Facebook mandatory on all helmets of the firm Meta, valiant developers have worked in the shadows to try to offer users a solution to enjoy their virtual reality headsets without the giant having control over our private data. This announcement had sounded the death knell in the ranks of players, too, the developer, hacker and leaker Basti564 had published a solution to escape from the yoke of the society of mark zuckerbeg. Thus was born Oculous.
The app, available at Githuballows among other things to deactivate headset telemetry and updates, to activate audio playback in the background, but also and above all, allowed until then to disconnect the Meta Quest from our account Facebook/Oculus. For this last point, the developer used a flaw in the code of the operating system headsets to change the owner of the device.
After over a year and a half of Oculess releases, Meta has finally patched the main bug used in Oculess.
From version v42 (v41?) onwards you can’t use it anymore to logout of your Facebook or Oculus account. pic.twitter.com/Nw2JXRDzVB— bastien ???? (@Basti564) August 15, 2022
With the arrival of new accounts Meta and profile HorizonWorldthe giant now offers us to no longer necessarily link our account and therefore our profile Facebook to our devices. Be that as it may, it was a priori at this time that the firm chose to patch the flaw operated by Basti564 and its application Oculous, thus preventing profile disconnection from working. However, the developer reassures his community: the rest of the features continue to work.