Facebook announced that its long-awaited support for multiple user accounts and device-specific application sharing is going to Oculus Quest 2 starting next month.
The company said in a developer blog post that the next ‘Multi-User’ feature will allow you to add up to three secondary accounts to a single device. ‘Application sharing’ will also give primary account holders the ability to share their application library between local secondary profiles. Shared apps will allow users to maintain separate game progress and their own specific profile achievements.
Multi-user accounts and application sharing will arrive on Oculus Quest 2 first as experimental features in February and then on the original Quest 2019 at an unspecified later date. Like all new Oculus users, all secondary users on a device must log in with Facebook.
The company says that at some point in the future its next app sharing feature will also allow the account holder to share apps with three other devices at some point. It is ostensibly aimed at families with more than one Oculus headset, but Facebook has not said how it plans to apply this.
In addition, secondary account holders will be able to purchase their own apps and content on a shared device, but will not be able to share them with anyone else. Only primary account holders will have the ability to share between their secondary device profiles.
The company says its new features will “help to grow the VR community, promote [Oculus Store] applications and help prevent piracy. ”It is also said to increase home use and create” better engagement for the developer in the long run “.
All new applications submitted to the Oculus Store after February 13th should have App Sharing enabled. Developers who posted before that date can opt out of sharing applications, however, they must do so before February 12, otherwise it will be applied automatically.