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A companion desktop app lets you beam a live feed of your computer screen over your virtual table space. Up to 16 people in VR can be in a Workroom together, while an additional 34 people can join over video call without wearing a headset. What impressed me the most about Workrooms is the way that it brings parts of the outside world into VR. Or as Zuckerberg puts it, an “embodied internet.”

Zuckerberg went so far as to recently say he wants Facebook to be primarily thought of as a metaverse company-a sci-fi concept that says we will all one day spend significant chunks of time in a fully immersive, digital space.

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While an incremental update to Facebook’s VR efforts in its own right, Workrooms fits into the social network’s broader ambitions to own the next computing platform and build the so-called metaverse. That said, I can see this experience become compelling for more casual users, and potentially those who are totally new to VR, in the years ahead. After spending over an hour in Workrooms, I can see its potential as a more immersive way to communicate with people who are physically apart, but I don’t see it catching on beyond the most diehard VR enthusiasts anytime soon. It’s the social network’s first stab at creating a VR experience specifically for people to work together in. We were there to preview a new app, which Facebook is describing as an “open beta,” for the Oculus Quest called Horizon Workrooms. It was there that Zuckerberg first appeared through his webcam before donning a headset and teleporting into a chair at the table as his own legless avatar. A giant, floating display nearby showed other Facebook employees dialed in from the non-VR world to watch us through their computer screens. I was sitting at a long, U-shaped conference table with a handful of other reporters, our floating torsos bobbing over our chairs, as the Facebook CEO beamed in. It wasn’t long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse.

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