Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, August 19th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Soon you can only use an Oculus if you have a Facebook account first, but bizarrely the Facebook portal,

along with the Echo Show and Google Nest Hub Max, is opening up to Zoom.

Netflix is testing a shuffle play feature,

BlackBerry phones are coming back,

and Apple becomes a $2 trillion company.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Well developers are up in arms about

something once again though this is a much narrower set of developers I guess.

Oculus has announced that beginning in October much narrower set of developers I guess.

Oculus has announced that beginning in October it will require all of its VR headset

users to sign up with a Facebook account and it will remove support for separate

Oculus accounts around that same time.

So if you want to use Oculus at all going forward,

you're going to have to do it through the orifice of a Facebook account,

to paraphrase the late Steve jobs quoting the verge.

Starting later this year you'll only be able to sign up for an Oculus account through

Facebook. If you already have an account you'll be prompted to permanently merge your account. If you don't you'll be prompted to permanently merge your account.

If you don't, you'll be able to use the headset normally until 2023, at which point official

support will end.

Old headsets using non-linked accounts will still work, but some games and apps may no longer function.

Developers can keep using an unlinked developer account without social functionality,

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