No hits on google, can you share the info your alluding to?
With a growing number of cameras adorning the latest VR headsets from Meta, users understandably would like to know how their privacy is treated before inviting a headset into their home. Here’s what Meta has to say about what data is collected through its headset’s camera and sensors, and how...
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We don’t collect and store images or 3D maps of your environment on our servers today
This is from back in 2019, before they even announced the Facebook integration, and was a pretty huge stink back then.
Later on, people on the quest subreddit found the SDK and system libraries do in fact have calls for rendering a 360º, 3D photo of the room they're being used on, which Facebook cleared up was only "for debugging purposes only", and that in fact lets employees testing the headset send pictures of their environment to Facebook servers. This is supposedly not enabled in retail builds, but still included on them.
Facebook says its Oculus Quest and Rift S headsets store room mapping data locally and do not send that data to their servers. The explanation comes after attempts to clarify how the system functions for consumers and how it was developed and tested internally with employees. Facebook’s two key
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This was, again, before the Facebook integration, and before Facebook was teasing stuff like color passthrough for the Quest 2 Pro, and before they added all the Mixed Reality APIs and functionality to the headsets.
Reminder Facebook survives on stockpiling your data and selling it/using it for advertising. That's the reason they can afford to sell the Quest line for that cheap. Because they're capable of selling a lot of info on you no one else can. Like, your room. Or biometric data like how you move, your height, and so on.
If you don't care about any of this, that's fair. But believe me, no, it's not
my loss.
