{"id":126482,"date":"2021-08-19T14:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/facebook-launches-vr-remote-work-app-calling-it-a-step-to-the-metaverse"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:22:30","slug":"facebook-launches-vr-remote-work-app-calling-it-a-step-to-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/facebook-launches-vr-remote-work-app-calling-it-a-step-to-the-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"Facebook launches VR remote work app, calling it a step to the \u2018metaverse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-launches-vr-remote-work-app-calling-it-a-step-to-the-metaverse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In its first full VR news briefing, the company showed how Workrooms users can design avatar versions of themselves to meet in virtual reality conference rooms and collaborate on shared whiteboards or documents, still interacting with their own physical desk and computer keyboard.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aug 19 (Reuters) \u2014 Facebook Inc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/FB.O\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(FB.O)<\/a> on Thursday launched a test of a new virtual-reality remote work app where users of the company\u2019s Oculus Quest 2 headsets can hold meetings as avatar versions of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The beta test of Facebook\u2019s Horizon Workrooms app comes as many companies continue to work from home after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down physical workspaces and as a new variant is sweeping across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook sees its latest launch as an early step toward building the futuristic \u201cmetaverse\u201d that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touted in recent weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its first full VR news briefing, the company showed how Workrooms users can design avatar versions of themselves to meet in virtual reality conference rooms and collaborate on shared whiteboards or documents, still interacting with their own physical desk and computer keyboard. Aug 19 (Reuters) \u2014 Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Thursday launched a test [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}