![]() Workrooms can be arranged with different desk layouts for various styles of forum or collaboration. It’s especially the case when something like Workrooms offers a mixed reality experience that combines VR with AR. That’s the unsaid thing about VR: Even though it’s going to be about 10 years since a kid named Palmer Luckey had the aspirational idea to cobble together a VR headset from old smartphone parts, new VR experiences still feel new. I’ve been using my Quest 2 a ton over the past year, mingling with others in the many social experiences available in VR, and Workrooms still felt refreshing as if I were using VR for the first time. Next, I downloaded a pre-release version of Workrooms from the Oculus Store and installed it on my Quest 2.ĭonning my Quest 2, I opened Workrooms, joined the Workrooms meeting I was invited to, and the next thing I knew, I was sitting at a C-shaped table full of people. Then, set up Oculus Remote Desktop on my Windows 10 PC (also works with macOS Big Sur and Catalina) this is the app you need to access your computer in VR. Prior to my meeting with Facebook, I created a Workrooms account. Workrooms launches today as an open beta, available for free, to Oculus Quest 2 users. It’s another step towards the “ metaverse” that Facebook is building with the Oculus platform, and it could be the future of meetings and collaborations. ![]() Compared to video calling, which is a 2D interface, Workrooms adds dimensional presence, albeit in a virtual space. When Andrew Bosworth, VP of Facebook Reality Labs, spoke, it sounded like he was directly across the table from me.įacebook believes Workrooms is the next breakthrough for remote collaboration. ![]() The dozen people including myself weren’t physically together, but it sure felt like we were. None of us actually were in the same room. We were sitting at a virtual table in a virtual room inside of Horizon Workrooms, Facebook’s new virtual reality remote collaboration experience for the Oculus Quest 2. Here’s the thing: None of us actually were in the same room. One person walked up to a whiteboard and started drawing and writing on it.Įveryone looked genuinely happy to be together in the same space again as we turned our heads and looked at familiar faces and heard familiar voices. Everyone had their laptops or computers in front of them and clacked away at their keyboards. So we can hope to deliver these types of social experiences.Yesterday, I sat down for a meeting in a room full of people for the first time in over a year. And that’s why Facebook is investing so much early on in virtual reality. All these things are going to be possible. Imagine holding a group meeting or event anywhere in the world that you want. Or being able to watch a movie in a private theater with your friends anytime you want. “Imagine being able to sit in front of a campfire and hang out with friends anytime you want. Mark Zuckerberg speaking at the Samsung Galaxy S7 launch event in Barcelona, Spain But pretty soon we're going to live in a world where everyone has the power to share and experience whole scenes as if you're right there in person," Zuckerberg said. And now we're entering into a world where that's video. "Going back about 10 years, most of what we shared and experienced was text. Facebook paid some $2 billion in 2014 to buy Oculus, which has been working with Samsung on its Gear VR consumer headsets. The Facebook CEO talked up both companies' plans in virtual reality. Zuckerberg made his entrance to the Samsung event in Barcelona by walking through a crowd of journalists all wearing the VR headsets.
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