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So, here’s the deal—Meta’s cooked up something new for us space oddities living in VR. You can now snag a Zoom app from the Horizon Store, and everyone shows up as these animated avatars. Wait, did someone just walk through my wall? Happens often—these VR meetings are wild.
Now, I remember back in 2021. Meta sort of tried this before with Zoom in their Horizon Workrooms. Those VR meetings were face-to-face-ish—like you can wave at someone and maybe they pretend to see a hologram of you? It was fun. Sometimes awkward, like waving at a mirror that’s pretending not to be a mirror.
But now you can skip the complicated stuff and grab this Zoom app alone. Just you, your avatar, and maybe your boss who’s also an avatar—shouting into the void, I guess? Meta calls it a "seamless extension." Fancy, right? Just another way to make 2D meetings modern. Or 3D. Or semi-3D. Whatever! It makes sense, kinda.
Anyway, I digressed. So, the new gig lets you attend meetings as a cartoon version of yourself. Not the same immersive vibe as before, but still gets the job done. It’s funny because while you’re pixelating yourself in VR, someone else is staring at you from a boring old webcam.
Makes you wonder, do we really want to be these avatars during meetings? I mean, they’re fun but still cartoon-like, and not like Apple’s shiny Personas. Speaking of which, Apple’s already doing their own Zoom gimmick with realistic avatars—in case anyone’s keeping score.
But hey, the app’s free, so maybe give it a whirl? Just download from the Horizon Store and log in. Maybe your boss has a cooler avatar. Or maybe you’ll just laugh at how yours keeps glitching out. Who knows, right?
