Over the last few months Emily Olman and I have been exploring Meta’s Horizon Workrooms in terms of capability and potential for use as a creative tool for graphic designers, product developers and for business development in general. So what is Workrooms? It is one of Meta’s productivity tools that allows several people to meet virtually using personalised avatars within a 3D meeting space. It requires a virtual reality headset such as a Meta Quest 2 or Quest Pro. One of the key innovative features of the software is the ability to sketch with a ‘virtual pen’ using the tip of the controller – an excellent feature that we examine in Episode 1 below.
I met Emily a few years ago when working on a project for Matterport (a Silicon Valley based virtual tour platform). She is an accomplished entrepreneur based in San Francisco, USA and a great person to explore VR technology with. Our main focus has been identifying how Horizon Workrooms and VR in general can be utilised as part of a commercial process for creative practitioners. Episode 2 includes more diverse discussion on other areas of interest such as the explosion of AI art generators (including Midjourney and Adobe’s Firefly) and chatbots such as ChatGPT. See our discussions from November 2022 and March 2023 below:
