Metaverse: Find out how Facebook will bring your meetings to virtual reality.

Facebook introduced a new opportunity to connect colleagues in virtual meetings… The novelty, called “Horizon Workrooms”, is already part of the vision of the company and Mark Zuckerberg “Metaverse”. space that the CEO social network I want to create on the Internet based on mixed reality.

How does the novelty work?

The Horizon Workrooms app is launching in beta this Thursday (19). This allows users to use to the headset Oculus Quest 2 for virtual meeting room interaction.

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The software also uses other features such as spatial audio, “connecting” each person to their physical point in the interactive room, another way to make it even more like meeting in a real environment.

Participants can also collaborate on photos and other documents, as well as share their PC or Mac screens and take notes using the instrument’s virtual keyboard.

Here’s a video of Zuckerberg demonstrating the novelty in practice:

If you don’t have a Quest device, you can join the meetings from the regular video chat window.

“We don’t have to be physically together to feel present, collaborate or brainstorm,” Zuckerberg said of his creation. “We think (‘Horizon Workrooms’) will be a great VR use case.”

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Prior to its official release, the technology will still go through an extensive testing phase to fix bugs. According to the portal Axioswhen Zuckerberg began demonstrating the instrument, his mouth did not move. Logging out and logging back in seemed to fix the problem.

After all, Facebook says it views virtual reality office meetings only as a gateway to its Metaverse, a new interactive space that, according to the social network, will have entertainment and other personal activities for users.

Through: Axios, Youtube

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