Imagine taking a Zoom call with your Colleagues’ avatars on your Facebook VR headset as the whole meeting gets transcribed live.
Zoom Is Getting Ready
The pandemic put everything on hold for some time while companies and employers worked the remote working lifestyle and adapted to it. The platform used during the pandemic for remote work, turning the verbal shortcut online, with easy-to-use software and various features made for meetings is Zoom.
Metaverse is the combination of physical and virtual worlds that tech companies are clamoring to establish and dominate. Similarly, Zoom is getting ready to develop the applications and tools to get work done in that hybrid world.
In Zoom’s conference, Zoomtopia 2021, the platform announced it is taking the first transit into virtual reality. Employees and employers get many advantages with the Whiteboard of Zoom as it allows them to collaborate effectively online. Furthermore, the company plans to make this feature into its own service platform. That being the case, this feature, now called Oculus Horizons Workrooms, will become available on Facebook.
What will this feature do?
Employees will get computer-created avatars that will interact with each other in a firm white virtual conference room. In the preview images, it shows how you will not use a mouse cursor instead, you will use your hands to move directions and pan the whiteboard.
A blog post got published by zoom detailing all-new video-conferencing service features they are working on. The most interesting and we would think an impressive feature developed is the live transcription. According to the blog post, Zoom aims to have live automated transcription support by the last of 2022 for 30 languages.
Moreover, by the end of next year, all paid accounts will get to use the transcription engine that will consist of getting the language translated into 12 languages. No specifics have yet got detailed on which language they will start on first. Kites, the German translation company, has machine learning smarts to get used by Zoom, which they obtained in June.
Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions (Kites) got developed to be an online classroom translator for German and English students. Facebook has been trying to convince us how Metaverse life is the future, and it can get seen playing out by the latest Zoom announcement.
Everyone has had their lateness embarrass them at one point or another during this pandemic. Imagine you wake up and realize you’re late. You will have to do no clothes changing or rush. You just put on the virtual reality headset and join your meeting or class. Moreover, your avatar will represent you, so you will not get judged or feel embarrassed by what you are wearing.
However, a new question arises, will putting on the VR headset ever not feel goofy?
