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Oculus’s Quest 2 VR Headset<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At the end of December 2020 I was planning to purchase four Oculus Quest 2’s for students<\/a> to use in my Science class and for esports. When I finally got the four quests in the spring of 2021 I ran into an obstacle that I thought would be easy to overcome – to make school accounts for the Quest 2 headsets, I needed to have Facebook accounts because the only way to log into the Oculus App and therefore the Quests was to login using a Facebook account. I didn’t think much of it at the time because many of my friends on Facebook have two or three accounts. Well, I was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every single time I tried to create a Facebook account, every single time – and I tried over and over again – Facebook disabled my account. And every – single – time I would apply to have my account re-enabled and EVERY SINGLE TIME Facebook would disable my account, each and every account, PERMENANTLY disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried with school Google email accounts. I tried with school Microsoft accounts. I tried with personal Google email accounts. I tried with personal Microsoft accounts. I tried using Chrome incognito mode. I tried using Firebox and Edge’s private browsing. I tried at school, at home, on different laptops and computers. I tried on my iPhone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I found a strategy over the summer that finally worked! I purchased some IP addresses from a proxy website to make accounts outside my school and home IP addresses, in order to convince Facebook that was NOT me or any version of me they kept disabling permanently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used a different IP for each account and finally managed to create four Facebook accounts so that I could create four Oculus accounts! Four folks, just four. What are schools with dozens or even hundreds of Quests doing?? I can’t even imagine! Unless they had better luck than me! I still can’t believe the horrible luck I had – especially when I see people with multiple Facebook accounts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all that time I finally went ahead and started setting up my measly, four Quest 2’s. I ended purchasing some different apps than I had originally planned. Each quest has: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Beat Saber for esports<\/li>
  2. Echo VR for esports (this one was free)<\/li>
  3. Nature Treks for Science<\/li>
  4. Ocean Rift for Science<\/li>
  5. Star Chart for Science<\/li>
  6. Sculpt VR for Science<\/li>
  7. Tilt Brush for Science<\/li>
  8. Hand Physics Lab VR for Science<\/li>
  9. Gravity Lab for Science<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    So I took them to school Friday and was preparing the following handout for kids to use<\/a> one table at a time (with other activity centers):<\/p>\n\n\n\n