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Facebook launches VR remote work app
August 20, 2021
Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a test of a new virtual reality remote work application where clients of the organization’s Oculus Quest 2 headsets can hold meetings as avatar versions of themselves.
The beta test of Facebook’s Horizon Workrooms application comes as many organizations continue to work from home after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down physical workspaces and a the new variant is sweeping across the globe.
Facebook considers its latest launch as an early step towards building the futuristic “metaverse” that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touted recently.
The world’s biggest social network has invested heavily in virtual and augmented reality, creating equipment, for example, its Oculus VR headsets, working with AR glasses and wristband technologies, and buying a bevy of VR gaming studios, including BigBox VR.
Gaining dominance in this space, which Facebook bets will be the next big computing platform, will permit it to be less reliant in the future on other hardware makers, like Apple Inc, the organization has said.
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