Facebook wants to bring some reality back to the current non-physical world amid the pandemic by providing virtual reality conference rooms.
Horizon Workrooms is Facebook’s new idea for meeting in person but virtually. This Thursday, the social media platform launched the free app; those with Facebook’s $299 Oculus Quest 2 headset will use it to go into the virtual reality conference rooms.
The workrooms allow up to 16 VR headset users in a virtual meeting. Each person using the headset can create their own avatar that will appear as a character in the app. Up to 50 participants can be in a single meeting. Whoever does not have a VR headset can still be a part of the meeting by attending as video callers.
The headset allows people to act out normal human functions like using their fingers and hands when talking.
“The pandemic in the last 18 months has only given us greater confidence in the importance of this as a technology,” Andrew Bosworth, VP of Facebook Reality Labs, during a virtual room presentation on Tuesday.
