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Traditional video conferencing software launches an attack on the VR side, and the Zoom meeting will push the VR version.

Finally, traditional video conferencing software launched an attack on the VR side. Today, Zoom, one of the world’s largest video conferencing software, announced that it will launch a VR version.
It is reported that this is a cooperation between Facebook and Zoom, and the form of cooperation has attracted more attention. At present, there may be a separate VR client. However, this cooperation with Facebook is intended to connect its video calling software to its own “Horizon Workrooms” platform.

In fact, Horizon Workrooms is Facebook’s VR collaboration platform. We have interpreted it before. In addition to supporting rich VR collaboration functions, it also supports mixed communication between 2D video and VR users. This service is based on the Facebook Workplace platform. 

It is worth noting that the Facebook Workplace platform itself and Zoom are in a competitive relationship. Therefore, this is also the focus of this cooperation. Of course, we can understand it well. After all, as VR collaboration is used by more people, the space for traditional video conferencing will become smaller and smaller. Therefore, this collaboration can also be seen as the first step for Zoom to enter VR.