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Sometimes I wonder if the data from the cameras on my Oculus Quest 2 is being sent to FB's servers and kept. I guess I'll never know.
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It’s going over your wifi, right? To start, you could evaluate whether the upload bandwidth could fit a video signal.
I think there is no doubt it isn't uploading a raw video signal. But all kinds of things could be derived from that video and uploaded.
It's a powerful device with superb cameras & sensors, used to play user specific content, running totally unauditable code, connected to the Internet and requiring a real identity account to even start.

What could possibly go wrong.

I can’t wait to plug it into my brain stem!
If you enable hand tracking (without controllers), they explicitly notify that they are collecting data about your hands. Combine that with your arm length, hand size / shape, height and I bet you'd be pretty unique. If there aren't enough bits, data about "the way you move" or stand, general posture etc. would be more than enough to identify you I believe. A simple DNN can eat that data like breakfast. I don't care much but it is interesting nonetheless.
Better lower that bandwidth requirement estimate:

https://www.engadget.com/reddit-movie-floppy-disk-vcr-180230...

Yea.. felt like I sold my soul when I bought one and needed to create a fb account. But in death: unchained is so damn fun. I've always wondered if they operate oculus at a massive loss all so that they can collect a bunch of data. Does anyone know if the facebook info dump stuff shows what oculus data they collect?
Yes data is shared and kept. Now you know.