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Facebook Announces Virtual Meeting Rooms, "Horizon Workrooms" (Beta)

         

engine

11:32 am on Aug 19, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Facebook has announced a beta of its virtual meeting rooms, "Horizon Workplaces", for Oculus Quest.

Workrooms is a virtual meeting space where you and your colleagues can work better together from anywhere. You can join a meeting in VR as an avatar or dial into the virtual room from your computer by video call. You can use a huge virtual whiteboard to sketch out ideas together, bring your computer and keyboard into VR to work together with others, or just have expressive conversations that feel more like you’re together in person.


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thecoalman

9:12 am on Aug 21, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Discussing private business matters on a Facebook platform, sounds like a plan. LOL

I particularly like this part:

In addition to keeping your information secure, we want everyone to feel safe while collaborating in Workrooms. That’s why anyone who signs up for Workrooms must agree to follow our Facebook Community Standards and Conduct in VR Policy. If other members or content in the workroom violate these policies, you can always contact the team admin who can take action such as removing someone from the Workrooms team. You can also report an entire Workrooms team if you think it’s not following our policies. And If you’re in VR with people who are bothering you, you can report them using the Oculus reporting tool and include evidence for us to review. If someone records and sends us a clip of the audio content of your meetings as part of a report, we’ll use the information to take appropriate action and then delete the recordings.


They will be policing what should be private matters with Facebook policies.

blend27

11:13 pm on Aug 24, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Can I use my own for VR Avatar and can it be a Unicon in 2061 style of Police uniform then?

I promise not to neigh, I promise..

ronin

11:11 am on Aug 27, 2021 (gmt 0)

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This feels like an attempt to export some of the more hellish aspects of the office environment into one's own home.

engine

11:31 am on Aug 27, 2021 (gmt 0)

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I think you can be sure that someone will be using this, especially as it's going to be relatively low cost.

Microsoft has an elegant solution called HoloLens [webmasterworld.com...]

ronin

12:51 pm on Aug 27, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Microsoft has an elegant solution called HoloLens


I really like HoloLens. I first found out about it a couple of years ago (after Google Glass had failed to gain market traction).

Over the years (decades!) VR (Virtual Reality) has had a lot more column inches devoted to it.

But AR (Augmented Reality) which has only really emerged in the last decade or so appeals to me as a superior approach.

I suspect the evolution of Zoom / MS Teams style video-conferencing will be AR rather than full-headset VR.

If Google brings back Google Glass, then we might see both Glass, HoloLens and Oculus Quest all go head-to-head with competing tele-conferencing software.

Will this be the early 2020s equivalent of the iPad vs Google Nexus vs Samsung vs Kindle Fire tablet wars of the early 2010s?

If so will Samsung and Huawei produce their own VR / AR hardware / software responses?

What will Amazon do?

More to the point... what will Apple do?

tangor

7:20 am on Aug 29, 2021 (gmt 0)

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I suppose that all will pile on IF this fb beta takes off. I suspect that a growing number on the web are taking second looks at the monopoly, players, and potential for privacy invasions.

Most, I believe, will wait and see how if all shakes out. The terms "must agree to follow our Facebook Community Standards and Conduct in VR Policy" pretty much reveals fb will be all up in your business.

ronin

11:53 pm on Sep 6, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Relevant article:

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