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The app offers virtual meeting rooms, whiteboards and video call integration for up to 50 people. [22] [23] On 7 October 2021 Facebook changed the name Facebook Horizon to Horizon Worlds. [24] After an invite-only beta phase, the game was released in the U.S. and Canada to people 18 years or older on December 9, 2021.
In 2019, the social network company Facebook launched a social VR world called Facebook Horizon. [33] In 2021, the company was renamed "Meta Platforms" and its chairman Mark Zuckerberg [34] declared a company commitment to developing a metaverse. [35] Many of the virtual reality technologies advertised by Meta Platforms remain to be developed.
Reality Labs, formerly Oculus VR, is a business and research unit of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware and software, including virtual reality headsets such as the Quest, and online platforms such as Horizon Worlds.
Based on Facebook's PR campaign, the name change reflects the company's shifting long term focus of building the metaverse, a digital extension of the physical world by social media, virtual reality and augmented reality features. [16] [56]
Users exploring the world with their avatars in Second Life. A virtual world (also called a virtual space or spaces) is a computer-simulated environment [1] which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar [2] and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others.
Large virtual communities and metaverse platforms have formed around social virtual worlds that can be accessed with VR technologies. Popular examples include VRChat , Horizon Worlds , Rec Room , and AltspaceVR , but also social virtual worlds that were originally developed without support for VR, for example Roblox .
YoWorld (formerly YoVille) is a browser-based virtual world game which was released on May 8, 2008. It is developed by Big Viking Games. [1] The game operates on the freemium model, and is supported through microtransactions, as well as a voluntary in-game ad program.
VRChat is also playable without a virtual reality device in a "desktop" [3] mode designed for a mouse and keyboard, gamepad, or mobile app for touchscreen devices. VRChat was first released as a Windows application for the Oculus Rift DK1 prototype on January 16, 2014, and was later released to the Steam early access program on February 1, 2017.