Facebook has recently rolled out the beta test of Horison Workrooms, a brand new VR remote coworking application functioning on the company’s Oculus Quest 2 headset. The app comes with virtual meeting rooms provided for people to collaborate long-distance in groups as avatar copies of themselves. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg views this app as one of the company’s steps towards creating the futuristic ‘metaverse.’ Sounds intriguing? Keep reading to learn more on the newly released VR app.
The Workrooms application arrives during the turbulent post-lockdown times when many professional teams are still separated by physical distance and continue working remotely. The VR part of the app forms engrossing and highly impressive workspaces that resemble real-world rooms and recreate the feeling of being around your colleagues in the actual building. Facebook claims that they have tested Workrooms within their company workers and witnessed excellent potential.
In the new VR app, you sit around a table with your colleagues (read as their avatars) and feel as if you’re together in the room instead of being miles apart. You get to use your personally designed avatar (the feature introduced earlier in 2021 by Facebook) and hear your colleagues clearly as if they’re speaking from where they’re seated. Overall, the app offers a realistic experience, as well as a supremely immersive workspace where physical and digital combine into a ‘metaverse’ for users’ utmost convenience and productivity.
The tech behemoth has been investing majorly in virtual and augmented reality, developing AR glasses, creating hardware such as its Oculus VR headsets, etc. Betting heavily on the VR and AR fields, Facebook signals that for a tech giant, the sky’s the limit when it comes to embracing and dominating online worlds.
