Horizon Home, Horizon Worlds, creating games, hosting parties, and interact with friends’ avatars were announced during the Facebook Connect 2021 event. Based on the beta from last year.
Oculus Home is being renamed and enhanced as Horizon Home, which allows users to connect with one other using generated avatars, as announced at the Facebook Connect 2021 event. Since a beta test last year, the concept has been refined.
Horizon Worlds, says to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, would allow friends to construct their own worlds and games, as well as “organise parties.”
Finally, Horizon Workrooms is being created as a collaboration area that might be beneficial for workplaces and team meetings.
Workrooms appear to be compatible with Zoom and are fully customisable. Horizon Home is also intending to introduce personal office spaces that will be fully customisable.
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While most of what was described at Facebook Connect 2021 felt like far-fetched scenarios, the Horizon Home specifics were at least partly anchored in fact. Users can already build personalised avatars and hang out in virtual spaces using apps like Rec Room and VRChat. The Horizon platform has the potential to develop this much more.
It sounds like it’ll be a one-stop-shop. Horizon Worlds has piqued our curiosity since you may design your own avatar with a distinctive appearance and attire. There’s always been something deeply satisfying and therapeutic about creating worlds in games like Minecraft, but also in real life with something as simple as Lego blocks.
Horizon Home, a personalised social environment where you can invite friends to hang out and watch videos before diving into an activity, was launched today by Facebook. Horizon Home, which will be available soon for Oculus Quest 2 headsets, will serve as your own home in the company’s ever-expanding metaverse. Players may currently pick from a range of varied locales, ranging from a comfortable alpine cottage to a cyberpunk flat, in Quest. This functionality is taken to the next level with Horizon Home.
Horizon Home, as previously noted, allows you to invite other gamers over to your house for a talk or to relax and watch some films. This is a great method to get together with pals before jumping into a game, and it should ideally make the present party-forming mechanism easier. According to Facebook, you’ll be able to create and design your own Horizon Home in the future, though specifics are few at the time. In addition, the business has revealed that Facebook Messenger audio calls will be available later this year, enabling for smoother cross-platform collaboration.
Facebook today announced the launch of a number of significant apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Smartsheet, and Spike. Dropbox, Monday.com, MURAL, My5 (UK), PlutoTV, and Slack are among the additional applications that the firm hopes to provide in the future. Facebook believes that by adopting the Progressive Web App industry standard, it would inspire other developers to transfer their apps to the Quest platform.
Horizon Home is the latest addition to Facebook’s growing VR metaverse, which now includes Horizon Home, Horizon Worlds, and Horizon Venues (formerly Venues). Facebook has developed a new personal workplace environment to commemorate the launch. Horizon Homes are now offered in a number of locations. In the future, you’ll also be able to construct your own.
Facebook announced many more enhancements for the Oculus Quest 2, including support for a larger selection of 2D apps, in addition to Horizon Home. The business just launched multitasking, which allows you to engage with various 2D apps from your headset at the same time.