We used Zoom to teach and meet in the global context of the epidemic, but many have described it as a tiring and tiring experience. In response, Facebook has developed a virtual reality app that allows you to chat with friends in a more realistic way.
However, it does require a 300 VR headset, the most popular of which is the widely used Achilles Quest 2. Wearing it, when you enter the Horizon workroom, you see cartoon characters of different people sitting around a table in a room, which gives a sense of the real scene, while other participants feel the same way.
With this app you can also choose different outfits, avatars and clothes. Facebook aims to enable people to use Aquilas for fun as well as serious activities and to have a unique virtual dating experience. A maximum of 16 people wearing headsets at a time can sit and discuss in the workroom. But a total of 50 people can be included who will be on phone calls without a headset and their video screens will appear in different boxes.
People wearing headsets will move their fingers and hands, so their digital outline will also move their hands and fingers. In addition, the lips of their digital characters will move in this way whenever they speak. The virtual conference also has a whiteboard where you can share presentations and writings with others.
"We've been using the app internally for over a year now, but 18 months of epidemics and lockdowns have shown that such platforms are the best platform for real meeting," said Andrew Boseworth, vice president of Facebook Realty Labs. Can be proved.
On the other hand, Facebook staff have said that they can present themselves in a more confident way in the Horizon workroom than in Zoom, and it is much easier to talk to each other thanks to virtual characters.
