{"id":1187,"date":"2022-06-21T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T19:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2022-06-21T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T19:10:15","slug":"horizon-home-hangouts-make-meta-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/horizon-home-hangouts-make-meta-social\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Home Hangouts Make Meta Social"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vro_metahome_hangout.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg with free-climber Alex Honnold in a Horizon Home hangout\" class=\"wp-image-1189 lazyload\" width=\"389\" height=\"195\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vro_metahome_hangout.jpg 800w, https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vro_metahome_hangout-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vro_metahome_hangout-768x384.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 389px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 389\/195;\" \/><figcaption>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joins free-climber Alex Honnold for a Horizon Home hangout. [Image: Meta]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Meta Quest 2 users can now enjoy a taste of Meta\u2019s evolving vision of the Metaverse thanks to the recent arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmw3.com\/2022\/06\/meta-quests-home-will-finally-be-social-in-v41-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Horizon Home<\/a>. Allowing users (or at least their avatars) to hang out, watch videos, and play games together, Horizon Home turns the Quest 2 home screen into a communal space for users and their friends. Meta\u2019s signature waist-up avatars float around the space and are able to chat verbally, gesture, and initiate activities. To showcase the update, Meta CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/pfbid02kQ9HSq1jSuWWQchS65NAmyqTrRsXXHjYej1QJ8R8pqkiGTJAxidqcenkWWHW19pUl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mark Zuckerberg joined free-climber Alex Honnold<\/a> in viewing his 360\u00b0 film <em>The Soloist,<\/em> taking in awesome views of Italy\u2019s Dolomite mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Socializing Goes Meta<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with Horizon Workrooms, Horizon Venues, and Horizon Worlds, Horizon Home makes up Meta\u2019s first substantial effort to pull users into a functioning metaverse. Although remote work using VR has yet not been especially successful, live concert experiences still suffer from the obnoxious presence of fellow virtual attendees, and the user-created experiences of Horizon Worlds are continuing to be developed, Horizon Home gives Quest 2 users a simple and streamlined way to enjoy each other\u2019s virtual company. (All while keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2022\/02\/meta-establishes-four-foot-personal-boundary-to-deter-vr-groping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a four-foot distance<\/a> from each other\u2019s avatars.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-src=\"https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vro_metahome_party-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Meta Horizon Home hangout session\" class=\"wp-image-1190 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vro_metahome_party-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vro_metahome_party-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vro_metahome_party-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vro_metahome_party.jpg 1280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\" \/><figcaption>A Meta Horizon Home hangout session in action with invitation notification (insert). [Image: Meta]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Where Horizon Workrooms merely wraps in VR an experience many of us have become used to, even fond of, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Horizon Home takes an experience made impossible or ill-advised (sharing a physical space with others) and provides a genuine alternative. Whether or not this virtual hang-out space will catch on with Quest 2\u2019s more than 10 million users remains to be seen. The fact that Meta has launched Horizon Home is not at all surprising as this kind of social experience &#8211; one has also seen in popular social VR worlds like VR Chat, and previously in non-VR apps like Second Life, MySpace, and Facebook &#8211; will be crucial to the establishment of a genuine metaverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Quest 2 users can now enjoy a taste of Meta\u2019s evolving vision of the Metaverse thanks to the recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[109,110,48,15],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-meta","tag-metaverse","tag-virtual-reality-news","tag-vr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Horizon Home Hangouts Make Meta Social - 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