Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 Has Some Serious Privacy Issues

A VR veteran weighs in on the problems with connecting your headset to Facebook

Avi Bar-Zeev
OneZero
Published in
7 min readSep 18, 2020

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Stylish dark blue image of a man wearing Oculus headset.
Photo: Minh Pham/Unsplash

The leaks are true.

Oculus, which is owned by Facebook, just announced the Oculus Quest 2, a very decent low-end VR head-mounted display (HMD) for under $300. This has been the company’s own internal quest for…

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Avi Bar-Zeev
OneZero

XR Pioneer (30+ years), started/helped projects at Microsoft (HoloLens), Apple, Amazon, Keyhole (Google Earth), Linden Lab (Second Life), Disney (VR), XR Guild