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Computerworld Vertical IT
AUGUST 19, 2021
Facebook on Thursday unveiled its vision to make remote meetings more immersive with the introduction of Horizon Workrooms, a virtual reality app for team collaboration. But convincing employees to put on VR headsets for conference meetings — or companies to buy the hardware in the first place — could be a tough sell, say analysts.
Vox
OCTOBER 28, 2021
The company is trying to refocus away from social media and toward building what it calls the metaverse. From now on, we’re going to be metaverse first, not Facebook first,” Zuckerberg said at Facebook Connect, the company’s virtual and augmented reality developer conference. “As Michael Nagle/Getty Images. Facebook, Inc.
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The Verge
OCTOBER 20, 2021
The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail.
The Verge
AUGUST 25, 2020
Facebook’s annual Oculus Connect conference will be held online-only on September 16th — and it’s being rebranded as Facebook Connect, part of the social giant’s gradual assimilation of its virtual reality subsidiary. Like the past few years’ events, it will cover a mix of virtual and augmented reality news from Facebook.
Vox
OCTOBER 11, 2022
An avatar image of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presenting at the company’s Connect conference in October 2022. Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company will be taking a major step to making its virtual reality metaverse avatars more lifelike: by giving them legs. No other popular AR/VR hardware maker has been able to do this yet.
Vox
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Or will a small group of us end up playing video games in a completely — and probably lonely — virtual world? Like the Meta Quest, the new Apple headset can do fully immersive virtual reality, but it’s also capable of combining virtual elements with images of the real world, kind of like the Google Glass concept did.
The Verge
AUGUST 19, 2021
Facebook is bringing the office to VR with Horizon Workrooms It wasn’t long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse. It’s the social network’s first stab at creating a VR experience specifically for people to work together in.
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