[justchilly]

How much would you be willing to pay for a comparable headset without a required facebook account.

Clearly FB is planning to extract value from this, and is why they can price this at just $299. They're betting customers will give up some data/privacy for that low price.

[cwhiz]

The Quest was $400 and didn’t require a Facebook account. It looks like they cut some corners on materials to get the price down to $300.

I would be willing to pay $400-$500 for a Quest 2 if it didn’t have the Facebook integration.

More importantly, I’d like to see Facebook FORCED to provide a monthly dollar value that they think my data is worth.