Facebook is providing an alternative to conference calls and video chats.
The social media platform launched a virtual reality app that lets you feel like you’re sitting around a conference room table on Thursday (August 19), via CNN.
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The app, called Horizon Workrooms, is free for users of the Oculus Quest 2 headset, and allows up to 16 VR headset users to meet in a virtual conference room with cartoon-like avatars sitting at the chairs. Up to 50 people can be present in the meeting, with the rest joining as video callers in a grid screen inside the meeting room.
The avatars’ expressions also change, and meeting participants can use their hands and fingers to make movements as they speak. There’s also a virtual whiteboard for presentations.
“The pandemic in the last 18 months has only given us greater confidence in the importance of this as a technology,” said Facebook’s Andrew Bosworth, VP of Facebook Reality Labs, who added that Facebook has been using the app internally for about a year.
Mark Zuckerberg recently made an announcement about an indefinitely banned user.
Horizon Workrooms is now open for collaboration, built for teams to feel like they’re together despite being apart. The tools we currently have serve people to a certain degree, but we’ve lost the ability to be creative and connected, a gap we believe Workrooms can bridge. pic.twitter.com/TOSyiinKOl
— Boz (@boztank) August 19, 2021
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