Facebook officially introduced Horizon Workrooms
The social network launched a new service that will allow work meetings in digital environments using virtual reality
Facebook announced its new Horizon Workrooms platform, a service that allows work meetings to be carried out in digital environments through the use of its Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headsets, making it possible to interact with other people through their avatars.
Horizon Workrooms, which is available from this week in open beta in countries where Oculus Quest 2 is supported, represents the “flagship collaboration experience” of Facebook, as the company reported in a statement.
The platform allows users different functions in a mixed reality environment, such as holding business meetings, regardless of the physical distance that the employees are.
Horizon Workrooms will let users participate in meetings in virtual environments in VR through their Oculus avatars, as well as spatial audio technology for greater immersion when perceiving sounds from different places in virtual space.
For this they use the Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality viewers from the social network, but also from other compatible external tools such as computers and keyboards that can also be brought to reality.
The service is compatible with the new OculusRemote application for Windows and Mac computers, and in this way users can share the content of their screens in the virtual reality environment to the rest of the participants in the meeting, in addition to other functions such as taking notes.
K. Tovar
Source: dpa
