Do you want to wear a virtual reality (VR) headphones for your conference meetings? If you do, Facebook has an app for you for your official team sessions.
Facebook has unveiled “Horizon Workrooms”, a virtual reality application for team collaboration, which, according to it, will make remote more immersive meetings because it is built around its virtual helmet Oculus Quest 2.
Facebook does not seem to have disturbed the question of whether the offices will invest in VR helmets to transmit it to employees to participate in team meetings, which, as it does not seem to appreciate.
Open Beta of Horizon Work Rooms are available for download on Oculus Quest 2 in countries where Quest 2 is supported.
The Horizon Work Rooms mainly reproduce meetings of the conference room with your colleagues represented in the form of animated avatars. It can be remembered that Facebook introduced the horizon of last year, its social space of virtual reality accessible via Oculus VR Headsets.
You and your colleagues as animated avatars
Seeing yourself and your colleagues from your virtual office space, because animated avatars may seem a little childish, but Facebook, who says he already uses “work halls” to collaborate, believes that it is the One of the best ways to work if you can not be physically together.
“It works through virtual reality and on the web and is designed to improve your team’s ability to collaborate, communicate and connect remotely, through the power of VR, whether it meets for Pave or block an idea, work on a document, hear updates to your team, train yourself and socialize, or just have better conversations that circulate more naturally, “said Facebook in a blogpostost.
The work rooms will offer infinite white board space to sketch things together in real time. It also helps pin digital images from your files as needed. And you can even save all your virtual whiteboards or export them for traditional 2D visualization.
VR Headsets for 16 only, please
“Horizon work rooms” allows 16 participants and have ideas on a shared whiteboard or display shared files. Virtual meeting rooms are cited to access the use of Oculus Quest 2 headphones, although it is possible to join by video call from a laptop – the application supports up to 50 users in the video.
People inside the workspace with a helmet will be able to use their fingers and hands during the discussion, and when they speak, their avatars will match their speech.
And avatars were also modified to make it more interesting. “Our new avatars, whom we launched earlier this year, offer a wide variety of customization options and feel more expressive and natural, which helped you feel really there with your colleagues,” said Facebook .
The layout of the virtual room can also be dollated depending on the purpose of the meeting. “Whether you are focused on collaboration, conversation or presentation, there is a seated layout for every occasion, and the entire room increases from top to bottom to fit the size of your group.”
Facebook does not say anything to fear of privacy
Some of the other features are mixed reality keyboards that allow users to access their laptop in a virtual space, hand tracking for more expressive avatar animations and a spatial audio system that adjusts the way people are waving to third parties depending on their relative locations. The virtual room.
Facebook seems quite clear that virtual meetings can be made more interesting in jazant technology. But aside the cost and “klunkiness” aspect of helmets, there is also the question of privacy. But Facebook says that work halls will not use your work conversations and materials to inform ads on Facebook. Third-party applications also did not access, display or use these images or videos to target advertisements.
For recording, spatial has a similar application that allows virtual meetings with 3D avatars. The Microsoft Mesh application for Hollens is also built on the same lines.
