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Your next office could be inside a VR headset

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Work from home typically means Zoom calls and Slack, but Mark Zuckerberg is envisioning a new way to work remotely: virtual reality. Last week, he unveiled Workrooms: Facebook’s latest effort to enter the “metaverse.” Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) explains. References: Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s full interview with CBS unveiling Horizon Workrooms here. Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. What do you want to learn about on Recode Daily? Send your requests and questions to recodedaily@recode.net. We read every email! Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Recode Daily by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices. This episode was made by: Host: Adam Clark Estes (@adamclarkestes) Producer: Alan Rodriguez Espinoza (@ardzes) Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:45.1

If you've been working from home for the last year and a half, you're probably used to

0:48.4

looking at a computer screen and talking to your co-workers over Zoom.

0:51.8

Well, if you mark Zuckerberg, your idea of work from home looks completely different.

0:58.2

You know, we're very optimistic that in five years from now, people are going to be

1:03.3

able to live where they want and work from wherever they want, but we're going to be

1:08.1

able to feel present as if they're together when they're doing that.

1:14.0

Instead of a computer monitor, you're wearing VR goggles and you're not seeing your co-worker

1:18.2

on a video call.

1:19.8

Instead, you're sitting next to their avatars in a virtual room.

1:24.1

This is Zuckerberg's vision of the future of work.

1:26.8

And last week, he launched Workrooms on Oculus.

1:30.0

It's the company's first step into rolling out something called the Metaverse.

1:34.7

I think of the Metaverse as the next generation of the internet.

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