Meta’s mixed-reality headset is designed for work and meetings with Horizon Workrooms. I put it to the test for a month.
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00:00 Intro
01:11 Setting Up Workroom Station
01:35 Using Multiple Virtual Monitors
02:53 Virtual Keyboards
03:47 Passthrough and Draw Tools
04:10 Workroom Environments
05:16 Extended Sessions with the Quest Pro
05:32 Some Glitches
07:39 Workroom Avatar
07:49 Horizon Workroom Meeting
09:29 Workroom Features
09:57 Whiteboard
10:43 Facial Expressions with Quest Pro
11:09 Offline Avatars
11:15 The Future of Collaborative Meetings?
Nabil P
February 6, 2023 at 3:45 pm
i’ll come back in few years
Keng Yuan Chang
February 6, 2023 at 4:11 pm
They need real wigig standalone connection solution
Bizz
February 6, 2023 at 4:13 pm
“Maybe meta will hard wire the headset into the computer so it can be faster”
This is how it used to be actually. In the VR Social/Gaming community, we’ve been asking for modern headset manufacturers to quit it with this wi-fi or USB-C only connection garbage for a while now and they won’t listen. It was so much better when the headsets were tethered and most people I know all agree that tethered headsets that are over 4 years old are still better than all of the modern headsets coming out lately.
Tyler Hansen
February 6, 2023 at 7:49 pm
Completely agree, I can’t stand the wifi latency even with Wifi Direct. Hoping Apple’s headset blows these things out of the water (which it’s looking like it will).
psvr 3D videos
February 6, 2023 at 4:49 pm
Per the lag issue, were you using a 5G or better network connection and wired cable between your PC and router? I think that fixes any lag issues.
Dave kent
February 6, 2023 at 4:52 pm
What a way for Facebook to get information of companies
Chris
February 6, 2023 at 4:57 pm
So…this headset has been out for a while now. Are any companies buying into it?
Manitra Mahefa
February 6, 2023 at 11:19 pm
No. It’s basically a dev kit and beta testing.
penguin272
February 6, 2023 at 5:10 pm
For you out there, hesitating to step into this world. Working with VR is a total different way of working. Workrooms is “the worst” way of doing it as the benefit is not useable. in immersed VR or vSpatial you can move the monitors to the distant or to the near witch sizes beyond “real world”
my typical setup is 3 in a row and sometimes one in the middle above and I grab the one I need for the moment, the others are still visible.
With you VR glasses well “fixed” with BoboVR straps it is easy to forget the real outside. Be equipped with logi mx mini and a mouse and give it a try
and don’t forget that screen capture cannot reflect the beauty (I mean that) of those world
I am working (my private world) for now a year in immersed VR, removed all real monitors at home and there is no going back. immersed is fedby an i7 intel nuc
Mo A
February 6, 2023 at 5:58 pm
We need Meta we’ve internet that works seemingly with real world internet cos everything looks jagged and the Virtual world appears it is not designed to it.
Mo A
February 6, 2023 at 6:02 pm
I imagined holograms floating around you from advertising companies they need to invest in this hmmm
Mo A
February 6, 2023 at 6:03 pm
Waiting for Goofy to bounce right in Lol 😂
Mo A
February 6, 2023 at 6:06 pm
Samsung is working on there versiom also with Google.
Michal Dziag
February 6, 2023 at 6:18 pm
A challenging task for the quest pro, to track those cute waving hands 🤷🏻♂️🐶
Matvei Vevitsis
February 6, 2023 at 6:26 pm
This is a gimmick with no actual demand or use case.
KevinInc50
February 6, 2023 at 6:34 pm
Looks and sounds barely better than rec room. Can’t believe they’re shutting down Echo Vr for this garbage.
MR Rosser
February 6, 2023 at 6:53 pm
I’m such a fan of this work style honestly.
MindBlown
February 6, 2023 at 7:08 pm
Looks good
macintac
February 6, 2023 at 7:49 pm
So exciting! Instead of looking at my 3 monitors physically, I can look at them virtually…!?!?
I can work at a dark mahogany desk in VR, while I’m sitting at a plastic garden table I may have got off Facebook marketing for 10 bucks…nice!
Soon maybe I won’t need a fridge or food in it because my virtual hands will feed me virtual caviar.
Tyler Hansen
February 6, 2023 at 7:51 pm
Workrooms is pretty bad compared with Immersed. Video editing is impossible with the strange lag and compression artifacts that come up at random, even when connected to the computer via Wifi direct.
Saving for the apple headset, which will have 4K per eye resolution and will definitely work seamlessly with Macs.
Tyler Hansen
February 6, 2023 at 7:51 pm
Workrooms is pretty bad compared with Immersed. Video editing is impossible with the strange lag and compression artifacts that come up at random, even when connected to the computer via Wifi direct. Try something as simple as watching a YouTube video and you’ll see the entire app just start to fail.
Saving for the apple headset, which will have 4K per eye resolution and will definitely work seamlessly with Macs.
exodous02
February 6, 2023 at 10:33 pm
It is really weird how meta just throws out the mouse. I don’t like using my hands for what I did with my mouse. I guess tracking a mouse is too difficult.
exodous02
February 6, 2023 at 10:44 pm
I think you should try immersed. I really don’t think meta will ever have the standard conference app as theirs will only work on their headsets.
jamesgjt
February 6, 2023 at 11:20 pm
This video is sponsored by Meta or not??
Neil Risley
February 7, 2023 at 12:27 am
Do the 3 screens still only work with MacBooks? (making it useless if you don’t like Apple) Meta still have a LOT to do before this is even viable…let alone good enough to work in imo 😒
CheerDra
February 7, 2023 at 5:12 am
It works with windows too.
Chris Schneider
February 7, 2023 at 12:33 am
Seems crazy to me that hard-wired isn’t an option if lag is an issue! I REALLY want to do exactly what you are talking about. Do my work in VR. Then my office can be FAR more like an enjoyable space when I have people in it, but when I get to work, I work in a different space. I wonder whether anyone is doing research into eye damage. Many people are getting eye damage from looking at a flat surface monitor at the moment; I wonder if this will be better or worse.
c6jones720
February 7, 2023 at 6:35 am
especially when you consider high performance VR games can be streamed from a pc to the quest without appreciable lag. Mybe the answer is just running productivity apps on mac linux or PC through steam..
Aldwin Janri Francisco
February 7, 2023 at 12:39 am
Now I know why Apple and Samsung plans to bring thier own Mixed Reality headset. Where can I invest money for this tech!
Technology is Awesome
February 7, 2023 at 12:54 am
Great headset but overpriced. I wouldn’t waste that much money on this.
Nerio Aredes
February 7, 2023 at 2:09 am
I work in tech and no one I know owns a VR headset. That says it all
hhh ppp
February 7, 2023 at 2:36 am
just use Immersed
Winnie Nie
February 7, 2023 at 3:53 am
I have a very good product, how can I contact you? Thanks.
David Tully
February 7, 2023 at 5:01 am
This is garbage technology for a nightmare corporate dystopia. And the worst part is that it doesn’t even work.
CheerDra
February 7, 2023 at 5:07 am
Immersed VR is by far the best option for working in VR. Much more flexibility with the monitors, and the lag can be significantly down to 5 ms or less if you use the Wifi-direct feature.
Tyler Hansen
February 7, 2023 at 7:58 pm
Plus it has public co-working rooms which are a lot of fun.
My Instant Search
February 7, 2023 at 5:16 am
Current Issues
1. finicky
2. aliasing
3. Input Lag
CheerDra
February 7, 2023 at 5:16 am
It’s kind of frustrating the main stream media keeps focusing on Facebook when it comes to VR. So many other amazing apps and communities are there who have been living the VR life for years now but these main stream media keep making it seem like VR is still a useless niche with 5 people using it in total.
Eric Martel
February 7, 2023 at 6:14 am
That is hilarious she crushed your world! KMSL
Garman Gulbrandsen
February 7, 2023 at 7:07 am
Why are all these reviewers so stupid
Who will keep the glasses on when going to get coffee
John
February 7, 2023 at 5:33 pm
From the perspective of a web developer. The tech just isn’t there yet..
Mostly it’s the software.. just doesn’t give me a fluid work flow..
You Tube
February 7, 2023 at 5:38 pm
Why not just use multiple monitors? This is over complication for no reason and tries to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. So dumb.
Hayley Harrison
February 7, 2023 at 5:38 pm
the pause before bridget says she feels like she’s in a cartoon world says it all.