Oculus Quest 2 customers will see a brand new dwelling house: Horizon Home, a extra social model of the digital lounge that pops up while you slip in your headset. Instead of simply being a reasonably and sterile digital atmosphere, you’ll invite mates to hang around in your Horizon Home house. The concept is that you’ll do issues collectively, like dive into VR movies or play multiplayer video games. Eventually, you’ll construct and customise your Horizon Home house too. It’s all a part of the corporate’s drive to deal with the metaverse, one thing Mark Zuckerberg talked about at size throughout right this moment’s Facebook Connect convention.

For the primary time, Facebook can be opening the Oculus Store to 2D apps like Slack and Dropbox. You’ll have the ability to entry them from inside Horizon Home, so you will not should take off your headset to maintain tabs in your work chat. And in fact, there will likely be apps for Facebook and Instagram as properly.