#Facebook pauses sales oculus quest due skin
Medical attentionĪccording to the CPSC statement on the matter, “the firm has received approximately 5,716 reports of incidents of skin irritation and approximately 45 reports of consumers that required medical attention.” “As part of this commitment we are now offering a free silicone cover to Quest 2 headset and Quest 2 Fit Pack owners.”Īffected users don’t have to return their handsets, but rather they can just request a free silicone cover that fits over the foam facial interface. Quest 2 requires your Facebook account to log in, making it easy to meet up.
“The safety and comfort of every customer is our top priority,”it added. To play Steam games on the Oculus Quest 2, youll first need to connect the. “Oculus has recently taken actions in response to a very small percentage of users reporting a generally mild skin irritation where the foam portion of the Quest 2 facial interface rests on the skin,” said the firm.Įssentially the piece in question is a piece of foam that sits around a user’s eyes and nose and acts as a cushion between the headset and the person’s face. Luckey left Oculus later that year, and co-founder Brendan Iribe departed in 2018.īut this week the Facebook owned unit announced it was voluntarily recalling a component in around 4 million of the devices, in cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). In 2017, after Facebook’s 2014 acquisition of Oculus, founder Palmer Luckey told The Next Web, “We are not going to track you, flash ads at you, or do anything invasive.” In June Facebook said it would begin testing ads in its Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets, in spite of an earlier claim that it would never do so. The issue centres around a foam portion of the Quest 2 facial interface which rests on the skin, which has caused a “mild skin irritation” with a small percentage of users. Facebook has paused sales of its Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset, and has issued a recall for four million of the components found on it.
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