Teams and Zoom to Integrate With Meta VR Workrooms - UC Today

Meta has revealed that it is partnering with Microsoft and Zoom to bring the connection platforms to its VR workspaces.

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The announcement was made during Connect 2022 arsenic the societal media elephantine announced the Meta Quest Pro – a VR headset designed with collaboration and productivity successful mind.

The headset volition beryllium utilized with Meta Horizon Workrooms, with Zoom and Teams integration, to let businesses to link and collaborate successful a VR space.

During the Meta Quest keynote, Satya Nadella, Microsoft Chairman and CEO, said: “Microsoft Teams is the astir ubiquitous precocious level for enactment today, and it’s becoming indispensable to however hundreds of millions of radical meet, call, chat, collaborate and bash business.

“We are intelligibly going through a once-in-a-lifetime alteration successful however we work; each organisation contiguous is looking for caller ways to reconnect and re-energise their workforce astatine home, successful the bureau and everyplace successful between. 

“That’s wherefore we are bringing Microsoft Teams immersive gathering acquisition to Meta Quest successful bid to springiness radical caller ways to link with each other.

“You tin connect, share, collaborate arsenic though you were unneurotic successful person, and successful the future, you’ll beryllium capable to usage different avatars, including meta avatars, successful immersive experiences and Teams Meetings too.

“Just deliberation astir however almighty whiteboarding oregon brainstorming oregon adjacent Teams meetups tin beryllium successful this space.”

According to Meta, Workrooms are an aboriginal measurement towards virtual offices successful the metaverse, but the institution stressed that it cannot beryllium built by conscionable 1 organisation.

When utilizing the Meta Quest Pro successful Workrooms, users volition beryllium capable to connect, stock and collaborate successful Teams with immersive experiences arsenic good arsenic articulation Teams meetings from wrong Workrooms.

Meta Avatars volition beryllium disposable successful Teams for whiteboarding, brainstorming, and meetups.

Users volition besides person entree to Microsoft’s 365 suite to interact with apps specified arsenic Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook straight from the Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, did not springiness galore details astir however the Zoom integration volition enactment with Workrooms; however, helium did corroborate that users volition beryllium capable to articulation the VR spaces via Zoom successful aboriginal 2023.