Facebook has announced that its long-awaited support for multiple user accounts and device-specific app sharing will go to Oculus Quest 2 from next month.
The company says in a developer blog post, you can add up to three secondary accounts to one device with the upcoming ‘Multi-User’ feature. ‘App sharing’ will also allow primary account holders to share their library of apps between the secondary local profiles. Shared apps will allow users to maintain separate game progress and their own profile-specific achievements.
Multi-user accounts and app sharing will only end up on Oculus Quest 2 as experimental features in February, and then on an unspecified later date after the original Quest. Like all new Oculus users, all secondary users on a device must log in to Facebook.
The company says at some point in the future, its upcoming App Sharing feature will also enable a primary account holder to also share apps with three other devices at some point. It’s apparently targeting households with more than one Oculus headset, but Facebook has not said how it intends to use it.
Furthermore, secondary account holders will be able to purchase their own apps and content on a shared device, but they will not be able to share it with anyone else. Only primary account holders will have the ability to share between the secondary device profiles.
The company says its new features will “help grow the VR community, promote [Oculus Store] programs, and help prevent piracy. It is also said that it increases household use and creates better involvement for the developer in the long run.
All new applications submitted to the Oculus Store after February 13th must be activated. Developers who have published before the date can subscribe to App Sharing, but they must do so before February 12, otherwise it will be applied automatically.