I didn’t know to enable this, and was left squinting through the nose hole to clack at my keyboard, retrieve my controller, and pull up my Slack or Twitter on my real-world laptop.Īt first, watching the presentation in this medium felt unnecessary. Apparently, there’s a way to set up the headset to “see” the world around you via small cameras on the device. Then I began to panic that I couldn’t have the headset on and type at the same time. I began to imagine how the average business attendee wearing a headset might feel, fumbling to find their hand controller after setting it down to type mid-meeting. I didn’t expect to have to walk around to tune in to various parts of the presentation. Not expecting to have to “walk” to the event, I was about a minute late, but I did spot a sign saying 1200 people were already there. But the dark sky gave no indication of time or weather the smell of my real-world coffee was my only reminder the work day was starting.Ī sign directed me across the courtyard for chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote, so I thumbed two joysticks - thankful for my experience as a casual gamer - to maneuver around the fountain, up some stairs and into the Horizon version of a metaverse amphitheater. Nature sounds, bubbling water and the dim conversations of a handful of other users around me gave me a sense of being there.
I could tell when my avatar was climbing - er, floating - up stairs. Basic, unfussy designs made it easy to navigate. For those with some video game familiarity, I’d put the world closer to a Roblox or the Sims.
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