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MARCH 28, 2024

Meta's Horizon Workrooms is getting a major update on May 30. Workrooms is Meta's collaborative productivity app for Quest headsets. Facebook Launches Horizon Workrooms To Power Remote Work Facebook is moving to power remote work with a collaborative platform called Horizon Workrooms.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A company spokesperson confirmed that Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues have a combined user base of over 300,000. Meta (formerly Facebook) launched the official open beta for its still-in-development VR social metaverse Horizon Worlds late last year on Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2 headsets. Credit: VRScout.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2022

’ During a Q1 2022 earnings call , Meta (formerly Facebook) co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared new information with investors regarding its next headset which is scheduled to launch sometime this year. Zuckerberg shares more information on the company’s upcoming XR headset ‘Project Cambria.’

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Facebook (Meta) today announced update v35 for the Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2, teasing several major updates to the Quest platform. Rolling out over the course of the next month, v35 will impact everything from Horizon Workooms to the Oculus smartphone app. Image Credit: Meta.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2022

Back in October, Meta announced that it would eventually transition its home environment to ‘Horizon Home’ , giving it a fuller set of social features like being able to invite party members to visit, hang out, or launch into VR apps together. In the video we get a glimpse at: Tutorial on how to use Horizon Home.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2022

Though Meta is steadily building up three social VR apps— Horizon Worlds, Horizon Venues , and Horizon Workrooms —the trio still exist as separate apps and hardly constitute a seamless experience. Today the company runs three separate social VR apps under the Horizon name. Image courtesy Facebook.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Meta opened its Horizon Worlds social VR platform in December, rolling out its proto-metaverse project to Quest users in the US and Canada. During an all-hands company call this past week—where CEO Mark Zuckerberg dubbed Meta employees ‘metamates’ —the company announced its Horizon platform has now exceeded 300,000 users.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021 today, the company announced it will be releasing a new Quest for Business program that’s rebooting its enterprise-focused VR software by bringing its growing suite of business tools to the consumer version of Quest 2, which you can buy from anywhere. Image courtesy Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The Quest Pro is not a huge bump over the Quest 2. Headsets anyway have not to be just evaluated on paper: Quest Pro introduces a lot of innovations and polishes, which all together create a headset that is for sure not revolutionary, but a noticeable step forward from the Quest 2. Meta Quest Pro and controllers (Image by Meta).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Meta accounts are now supported in Horizon Workrooms, essentially clearing the biggest roadblock to the software’s adoption as remote work and meeting solution. Since launch in August 2021 Horizon Workrooms used a separate Workrooms account and team management system for logging into the service and managing access.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As it is tradition of this blog, I have prepared a big fatty roundup with all the news announced at the latest Facebook Connect 2. Facebook becomes Meta (sort of). The whole Facebook Connect has been about Meta. Zuckerberg has basically made a pitch for the press and the investors about Facebook’s new course.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook’s journey toward making virtual reality a thing has been long and circuitous, but despite mixed success in finding a wide audience for VR, they have managed to build some very nice hardware along the way. Zuckerberg is turning trillion-dollar Facebook into a ‘metaverse’ company, he tells investors.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There’s two ways to look at Quest Pro: A better and more expensive Quest 2. If you plan on gaming just like you do on Quest 2, Quest Pro is in most ways the superior device. And that’s fine, Meta really isn’t selling Quest Pro as a Quest 2 upgrade. Image courtesy Facebook. Finding the Value Proposition.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 12, 2022

That is, the first Connect event since “Facebook Company” changed its name to Meta last year. Shah also teased an update that will allow videos taken within Horizon Worlds to be shared via Instagram Reels in what he called “one of the first connections between Horizon and our other apps.”. Microsoft Teams in Workrooms.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Undoubtedly the company’s biggest competition is Meta (formerly Facebook), which announced last week that it was bolstering efforts to shift its business toward building its version of the metaverse, something that saw a complete rebrand of the company. Meta launched its own work-focused immersive space back in summer.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

I wonder why Microsoft and Facebook haven’t taken action before. Meta Horizon has now 300,000 monthly users. Meta has announced in a meeting that Horizon platforms now have 300,000 monthly active users. The number includes both Horizon Venues and Horizon Worlds , but not Horizon Workrooms.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Image by Facebook). References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features. References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

Horizon Workrooms is Meta’s (formerly Facebook) virtual office and meeting room environment, designed as the first step towards building an “enterprise metaverse” where teams can collaborate and work together in immersive, virtual reality (VR) environments. What is Horizon and Workrooms? How does it work?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

It is clear that Microsoft has accepted Facebook’s challenge in the enterprise space, and has answered to Facebook Horizon Workrooms and its recent integration with Zoom with an equivalent product. Image from the Facebook Connect). Facebook is working on Meta since March, and now plans to open its own stores.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2022

The Menlo Park-based firm is gearing up for the fiscal year’s second half (H2) by preparing to distribute the long-awaited successor to the Meta Quest 2. The Washington Post leaked an internal memo from Maher Saba, Facebook’s Engineering Lead , revealing the planned redundancies. The Horizon Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Around 2 years after, Apple may release the cheaper “Reality One”, with the objective of pushing its headset more into the mainstream. Snap is going to lay off 20% of its staff , shut down some projects not bringing immediate revenues, like the just-launched Pixy drone , and slow down investments in long-term projects, like Spectacles.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Meta (the company formerly known as Facebook) will stream the event live on its website. You can also watch the stream on YouTube, Twitch, and via the official Meta page on Facebook. The tech billionaire was so committed that in October 2021 he changed Facebook’s name to Meta… No one could accuse him of a lack of ambition.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

11 min read At the Facebook Connect event in late October, Meta, along with its new name, unveiled Metaverse tools for both developers and users. And these objects can be seen in the Horizon Home virtual home or the Horizon Workrooms virtual workplace. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I guess a review is coming in 2–3 weeks, so be prepared As for the Pico 4, I’ll do that either this week or next one, instead. and the confusion and mismanagement that has happened to Facebook after it has been rebranded to Meta. We can say that Pimax has launched Nintendo Switch and Labo 2.0 And no one ever asked for it….

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Nreal Light has been launched in the US. Other relevant news. Image from the web).

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Ryan Schultz

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Last year, I avidly watched Mark Zuckerberg and other senior Facebook executives at the Facebook Connect 2021 event, as they proudly announced that the company would be rebranding as Meta, and pivoting to go all-in on the metaverse. The hardware to be launched at the event had already been totally leaked.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As for the actual battery life, I consistently got around the 2 hours advertised, though you can connect USB-C power to the battery for indefinite use, and this is how I spent the majority of my time in Vision Pro. Horizontally it's fine, and feels roughly on par with Quest 2. And you don’t ever forget that wire.

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