Okay, the thing is called Horizon Workrooms, Facebook launched “Horizon Workrooms,” a VR app aimed at reinventing virtual office spaces, two days ago. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed it in an interview with Gayle King a co-host on CBS.
Mark Zuckerberg said that that was his first time experiencing an interview in “VR”. He also said about how he always thought to create an immersive system where people could feel like they were together playing games or exploring – part of something named the “metaverse”. With “Horizon Workrooms,” you can enter and experience a virtual reality office as personally designed avatars. In the workroom, you can see your computer screen and keyboard, interact with your co-workers, brainstorm, and give presentations.
With “Horizon Workrooms,” you can enter and experience a virtual reality office as personally designed avatars, you can also design your avatars’ looks and use hand gestures, which will appear in the virtual room. “It allows you to sit around a table with people and work, brainstorm and whiteboard ideas,” For people who can’t be there through virtual reality, they can just video conference in, including everyone.
To get started inside “Horizon Workrooms,” you’ll need to buy an Oculus VR headset. The “Quest 2” currently starts at $299. Once you have the headset, you can download the free “Horizon Workrooms” app, which will allow you to join your own virtual workspace.
You can invite other users with an Oculus device into the conference room. Don’t have a headset? Team members without Oculus equipment can still join the room through a conference call link that displays them as a video call inside the room instead of an avatar.
To get started inside “Horizon Workrooms,” you’ll need to buy an Oculus VR headset. The “Quest 2” currently starts at $299.
The project is a part of Facebook’s attempt to be more than a social media company. It also owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus, which has led to criticism that it has too much power.
“Right now, I think people think about us as a social media company, and understandably,” Zuckerberg said. ” But I think, you know, five years from now, if we do our job well here, people will think about us primarily as a metaverse company.”
Zuckerberg says, “Horizon Workrooms can serve as an important tool for those seeking a hybrid or fully work-from-home situation without sacrificing the connection of office life.
Facebook is one of several large companies that recently pushed back return-to-office dates to 2022, as the Delta variant continues to spread across the United States. Zuckerberg previously stated that some Facebook employees would have the option to permanently work from home.
“All these tools, whether it’s video conferencing, or being able to collaborate better in the metaverse, in products like Workrooms, what we built here, is just part of this progression of giving people more freedom to live where they want.” Mark Zuckerberg Said.
