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Meta says it's deleting all Oculus accounts at the end of the month

Meta says it's deleting all Oculus accounts at the end of the month

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You'll lose all of your games, purchases, and store credits if you
don't migrate to a Meta account by March 29th.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer
tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a
writer and editor at MUO.

Mar 1, 2024, 9:51 PM UTC

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The Quest 3 on a charging dock
Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge

If you still haven't migrated your Oculus account to a Meta one, you
might want to do that soon. In an email sent to users, the company
says it will delete Oculus accounts on March 29th, 2024, preventing
you from reactivating or retrieving your apps, in-app purchases,
store credits, and more. You'll lose your achievements, friends list,
and any content created with your Oculus account if you don't migrate
to a Meta account before then.

Oculus accounts have been on the way out since 2020, when the company
then known as Facebook started requiring new users to sign up with
Facebook accounts instead. However, it added the ability to create a
Meta account in 2022, offering an alternative to users who didn't
want to link their Facebook account to their Quest headset. Meta
stopped letting users log in to their Oculus accounts in January
2023. If you've got a Quest gathering dust in a drawer somewhere,
now's your last chance to migrate your Oculus account to a Meta one.

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You can migrate your account by heading to this page and signing up
for a Meta account with the same email you've used for Oculus. From
there, you'll be able to access all of the same games, data, and
other purchases saved to your Oculus account.

Several of us here at The Verge received the email, including a
couple of my colleagues who have already converted their Oculus
accounts to Meta. It's not clear whether Meta sent these emails by
mistake or if there's any action Meta account holders will need to
take. The Verge reached out to Meta with a request for more
information but didn't immediately hear back.

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