Reuters -Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a test of a new virtual-reality remote work app where users of the companys Oculus Quest 2 headsets can hold meetings as avatar versions of themselvesThe beta test of Facebooks Horizon Workrooms app comes as many companies continue to work from home after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down physical workspaces and as a new variant is sweeping across the globeThe worlds largest social network has invested heavily in virtual and augmented reality developing hardware such as its Oculus VR headsets working on AR glasses and wristband technologies and buying a bevy of VR gaming studios including BigBox VRFacebooks vice president of its Reality Labs group Andrew Boz Bosworth said the new Workrooms app gives a good sense of how the company envisions elements of the metaverseIn July Facebook said it was creating a product team to work on the metaverse which would be part of its AR and VR group Facebook Reality Labs
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