Facebook leaders talk about Workroom in a press briefing.
Facebook leaders talk about Workroom in a press briefing.
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Facebook unveils Horizon Workrooms for remote coworking in VR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook is launching its open beta for Horizon Workrooms, a way for people to work together remotely in groups with Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headsets or other ways of connecting.

Workers can use the avatar creation system (built for the Facebook Horizon virtual play platform) to create cartoon-like characters in 3D-animated work spaces and communicate with coworkers in virtual meetings. It’s not quite the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected. But one of these days it probably will be, if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg follows through on his pledge that Facebook is a metaverse company. And it will help VR find its footing as it endeavors to become the next universal computing platform, as Facebook’s Oculus team certainly hopes it will be.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.