Meta introduced it’s now added an official Zoom app to the Horizon Retailer, letting you host and be part of on-line conferences as your Quest avatar.
This isn’t the primary time Quest customers may leap right into a Zoom name in VR. In 2021, the corporate built-in Zoom into Horizon Workrooms, its all-in-one immersive collaboration app. That was extra centered on face-to-face VR conferences although, which may additionally let you embrace webcam members right into a single immersive area.
Now, customers simply searching for Zoom and nothing else can obtain the standalone app without cost, which Meta calls a “seamless extension of the Zoom Office app you’ve already been utilizing in your cellular or desktop.”
The brand new Zoom app helps you to take part in conferences as your Horizon Worlds avatar, though not inside an immersive atmosphere like Horizon Workrooms. Zoom for Quest primarily tasks a 2D video of your avatar to anybody, be it a fellow VR consumer or an individual utilizing an ordinary webcam.
The query stays whether or not you’d truly need to affix conferences utilizing your Meta avatar. Whereas tremendously improved over time, they’re nonetheless simply as cartoony as ever—particularly compared to Apple’s newest Persona avatars coming to Imaginative and prescient OS 26. Notably, Imaginative and prescient Professional has had its personal Persona-capable Zoom app for the reason that headset’s preliminary February 2024 launch.
That mentioned, it’s troublesome to argue with free. To begin utilizing Zoom on Quest, merely obtain the Zoom Office app from the Horizon Retailer, and login with the identical profile you employ on cellular or desktop to get chatting.
