Meta’s First Big Proto-metaverse Project Finally Launches (kinda)
Nearly two and a half years in the making, Meta’s most ambitious social VR project, Horizon Worlds, has finally reached open beta. Well kinda. Starting today, the platform is available to those in the US & Canada who are 18 years old or older—on Quest 2 and Oculus PC. If you’re part of that group you’ll […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

9. Dezember 2021
Facebook’s Metaverse Takes a Baby Step with Customizable ‘Horizon Workrooms’ Environments
Facebook launched Horizon Workrooms back in summer, bringing to Quest a new enterprise-focused virtual collaboration platform that connects both VR and video chat users in the same place. Soon the app will let you choose from different environments which will be customizable to some degree—a prescient step on the way to Facebook’s vision of its metaverse. […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

28. Oktober 2021
Facebook Offers up $10 Million to Draw Creators to ‘Horizon’
Horizon, Facebook’s social VR space built around user-generated content, was announced more than two years ago, but the company still isn’t quite ready to send it out the door. Instead, Facebook this week announced it is rebranding the project as Horizon Worlds, while also announcing a $10 million fund to support creators building content within. […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

8. Oktober 2021
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Facebook unveils Horizon Workrooms for remote co-working in VR

Facebook is launching its open beta for Horizon Workrooms, a way for people to work together remotely in groups with VR headsets. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi

19. August 2021
Facebook Surprise-launches New VR Meeting App With Virtual Desktops and up to 50 People
Facebook today is surprise-launching a new app called Horizon Workrooms, a virtual collaboration space that connects both VR and video chat users. With the ability to bring a user’s PC or Mac desktop into the virtual room, the app takes a big step toward turning Quest 2 into a collaborative productivity device. While the long-awaited Facebook Hozion […]

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Facebook Creates New Internal Organization to Build “the Metaverse”
Facebook Reality Labs, the company’s AR/VR research and development team, announced the creation of a special product group focused on developing its future vision for “the Metaverse.” Apparently Facebook is betting big on the idea too, as it hopes in the near future to be viewed more as “a metaverse company” than a social network. […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

28. Juli 2021
Will Facebook Horizon be the first step toward the metaverse?

The excitement around a metaverse is growing, as it’s not just a thing of science fiction anymore. And Facebook Horizon might be a first step. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi

18. September 2020
Oculus Quest 2 and Facebook Horizon hands-on — An easy experience for mainstream VR

Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat goes hands-on inside the world of Facebook Horizon, the virtual world set in a virtual reality. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi

16. September 2020