Zoom announces integration with Facebook's VR meeting tools

Video conferencing tool Zoom is hosting the user conference Zoomtopia 2021 for two days, September 13th and 14th, 2021. In this, the partnership between Zoom and Facebook was announced. This will allow you to use some of Zoom's features within the virtual meeting room provided by Facebook.

Zoom Platform Updates: Empower Hybrid Teams, Connect Workstreams, and Engage Communities --Zoom Blog
https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-platform-enhancements-zoomtopia-2021/

Zoom Meets Virtual Reality: Announcing Zoom's Collaboration with Horizon Workrooms
https://www.oculus.com/blog/zoom-meets-virtual-reality-announcing-zooms-collaboration-with-horizon-workrooms/

Zoom is adding live translation services and coming to Facebook VR --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/13/22667556/zoom-live-translation-whiteboard-update-vr

Oculus, a Facebook company, has announced Horizon Workrooms, a virtual meeting room that facilitates remote collaboration. Horizon Workrooms has a virtual whiteboard that anyone can easily use, where you can write something to share ideas and brainstorm. The content written on the whiteboard can be output as an image at any time. The real-world keyboard works in tandem with the keyboard on Horizon Workrooms to let others know that you're working at hand during a meeting.

Oculus Releases Open Beta Version of Horizon Workrooms, a Virtual Conference Room for Team Collaboration-GIGAZINE

The Facebook-Zoom partnership has announced the integration of Horizon Workrooms and Zoom. It's easy to use, just access your existing Zoom from within Horizon Workrooms. This makes Zoom's whiteboard functionality available in Horizon Workrooms.

You can see how Horizon Workrooms actually uses the Zoom whiteboard in the following movie. Now that you can access the Zoom whiteboard from Horizon Workrooms, you can collaborate with other users on the Zoom whiteboard without having to enter Horizon Workrooms.

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— Zoom (@Zoom) September 13, 2021

The Zoom whiteboard will be available from Horizon Workrooms after 2022 and will be available in Oculus Quest 2 .

In addition, Zoom announced that it will support real-time translation capabilities in up to 12 languages by the end of 2022 for paid accounts. On the other hand, it was said that it would release an English transcription function for free accounts by February 2021, but announced that it will postpone this by the end of 2022 and expand the supported languages to a maximum of 30 languages. doing. It is said that the improvement of real-time translation and transcription function is due to the machine learning related technology owned by Kites acquired by Zoom in June 2021.