Zuck keeps saying that having a meeting in VR is like having it in real life, while using Zoom you forget the people you met with and you confuse who said what in which calls. Sometimes this can be useful, some others I think not. Well, Horizon Workrooms offer none of this, it just makes you meet and work at the same table with other people. When I talk about VR meetings, I always underline how meeting in VR has sense only if you need to exploit the physicality or the three-dimensionality of something: for instance, discussing around the prototype of a physical product, with all people of the distributed team meeting in VR so that they can analyze it from all the points of view or having dance lessons where people need to use all the body or entering all together in the virtual representation of a house in construction to see how the walls should be improved.Ĭollaboration app Spatial allows you to move in an environment and interact with 3D elements. But if we talk about the present, I can fairly say that it has a quite underwhelming set of features: one of the biggest lacking ones is that you can’t import 3D models. But this product has just launched in beta, and Facebook is a huge company, so we should see how it can evolve over time. Spatial can automatically caption and translate what the other people are saying). As you can see, at the moment, they are not that many, and other competitor software (e.g. These are the main features of Horizon Workrooms. Thanks to Workrooms, you can basically have meetings like in real life, even if people are physically distant from each other: you can be all together around a virtual table, everyone with his/her own PC, discussing some topic, or following a presentation. It is very useful for instance if you are following a presentation and you have to take notes on your PC, or if during the meeting you have to look up something on Google, or check out your e-mail inbox briefly. This is good for instance, for presentations.Įvery person that is in VR has also the possibility of having his own screen in VR in private mode in front of him/her so that to keep working even when in VR.
Alternatively, people can also share their desktop on a big screen so that all the other people can see it. But they can also stand up from the desk and join a whiteboard (actually a blackboard) where they can write stuff with their controllers or import some images to do brainstorming around some ideas. If someone has not a VR headset or is in mobility, he/she can join even just with the webcam, like with Zoom or Teams.Īll the people in the room can talk each other and have so a chat. You can create a room for your team, and then you all join it and meet together in virtual reality. Workrooms is a social VR experience to have business meetings.
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