If someone from the Evil Empire was here, it would be interesting to get some notion how Facebook checks identity. Is there some huge glom of software that compares online activity, public records, phone records, bank records, credit records, etc. to make sure you're an OK person?
If you think of it less like a monitor and more like a game console or a phone with a locked bootloader, then it's easy to see how you can require account auth in order to use the built-in software.
It would be like maintaining a separate appstore for iPhones.
I guess the issue there is that the popularity of the platform and nature of its limitations made it worth someone's trouble to maintain those repos. With something like an Oculus, I don't know that there are enough users (and also a sufficient subset that want to avoid Facebook or run some unsanctioned software) to justify the effort.
I'm assuming here that it is somehow subsidized (via volume or via data mining) and is cheaper than alternatives.
No thanks.
FB is just way ahead of the field on standalone. Once everyone else catches up I'll be surprised if Immersed doesn't port to each of them.