Explore Horizon Worlds

When you first begin using Horizon Worlds, you'll start by setting up your avatar. You'll be able to customise your body, face, hair and clothing. After you've saved the changes to your avatar, you can always go back and change these features.

To customise your avatar:

Bear in mind that if you're already in your personal space, the Edit Avatar button will be greyed out under your profile icon.

To move your avatar using Teleport mode:

To change your movement preferences:

To move your avatar using Slide mode:

To jump, click your right thumbstick. To sprint, click your left thumbstick. Bear in mind that these actions only work while in Slide mode.

You'll interact with many things throughout your time in Horizon Worlds. From throwing boomerangs, shooting basketballs or using blasters during Laser Tag, using objects in a world is part of how you'll explore in Horizon Worlds.

To grab an object:

To travel to a new world from the Plaza:

To travel to a new world from the personal menu:

When exploring Horizon Worlds, you may enjoy interacting with someone and want to add them as a friend. When you add them as a friend, it will be easier for you to find them and invite them to a party, explore or create with you in the future.

To add someone as a friend in Horizon Worlds:

Bear in mind that adding a person as a friend in Horizon will also add them as a friend to your Oculus account.

The Safe Zone is a personal space where you can take a moment away from other people and your surroundings. From here, you can mute, block and report content or people.

To access your Safe Zone:

From here, you can:

• Report the world you’re currently in.
• View, report or block nearby people.
• Mute or unmute someone.
• Go to your Personal Space.

If someone doesn't make you feel safe, you can block them from this menu. Learn how to block and unblock someone in Horizon Worlds.

Q: What is Horizon Worlds?

A: Horizon Worlds is a social experience where you can explore, play and create worlds.

Q: What data is being shared about my activity in Horizon Worlds with Facebook?

A: Horizon Worlds is a Facebook product that requires people to log in with their Facebook account. You can read more in the Supplemental Beta Horizon Worlds Terms of Service and Supplemental Beta Horizon Worlds Data Policy.

Q: Does my use of Horizon affect the ads I see across Facebook products?

A: Horizon Worlds is a Facebook product and people log in to it with Facebook, so Facebook may use information about your use of Horizon Worlds to provide you with more personalised ads.

Q: Are you recording what's happening in Horizon Worlds?

A: When you submit a report, you'll be able to include captured information from what happened in the past. Your Oculus headset will be capturing the last few minutes of your experience in Horizon Worlds through a rolling buffer that's processed locally on your device and is overwritten over time. Captured audio data from this rolling buffer is not stored on our servers unless a report is submitted, but we may store other data about your experience in Horizon Worlds in accordance with the Supplemental Beta Horizon Worlds Terms of Service. When you submit a report, we'll use the information you send us to take appropriate action and then delete the recordings.

Q: How are you going to prevent harassment in Horizon Worlds?

A: In Horizon Worlds, we know that it's important for you to feel safe and in control of your experience and surroundings. So, we're building features into the product that give people choices, including:

• A Safe Zone button that lets you take a break from your surroundings.
• The ability to block and mute people.
• The ability to report people or content.
• Personal boundary so other players can’t get too close.
• Trained safety specialists who can monitor and record harmful conduct as it happens.
• When you submit a report, it will include the last few minutes of your experience. This recording is being captured by your Oculus headset on a rolling basis, so it's simpler to include evidence of what happened in the past.

Q: What information is visible to other people in Horizon Worlds when I use the product?

A: Horizon Worlds is a public space, so when you interact with other people in Horizon Worlds, you can be seen just as you would be in a real-world public space. Your Horizon Worlds profile information (which includes details such as your username, avatar and your mutual Oculus friends who also play Horizon Worlds) is always available to other people in Horizon Worlds. This means that your avatar may appear in photos, recordings or live-streams that other people in Horizon Worlds capture and share.

Beginning on 31 January 2022, we'll be offering 3D avatars to the following countries:

To take a photo:

When you take a picture, it will be added to a bar under your camera preview. You can tap into the photo thumbnail and share it from here.

To share a Horizon Worlds photo from your Oculus camera roll:

When someone is your friend, you may have the option to meet them in the world that they're currently in.

To travel to a friend in Horizon Worlds:

Remember that you can only travel to someone if they're in a location you're able to join. Some worlds or areas you may not be able to travel to.

A party is made when a group of people want to explore together in Horizon Worlds. By partying up, you make sure that everyone in your party goes to the same world at the same time. If you don't party up, you may get separated from others you're playing with.

To create a party from your menu:

When using Horizon Worlds, other people around you will be able to hear you talking. If you'd prefer not to have anyone hear you, you can mute your microphone. You will remain muted until you re-enter Horizon Worlds or unmute yourself.

To mute and unmute your microphone, turn over your left wrist and select the Microphone icon.

If someone nearby makes you feel unsafe or uncomfortable, you can block them in your Safe Zone. Blocking someone in Horizon Worlds will also block their Oculus account.

To block someone:

This person will no longer appear in worlds that you're visiting, and they won't be able to contact you in Horizon Worlds.

If you want to unblock someone, you'll need to close Horizon Worlds and visit your Oculus settings. You can also block someone from the People section of your Horizon menu.

To unblock someone:

Once you unblock them from your Oculus settings, this person will be able to join you in parties, message you and may appear in worlds that you travel to.

A report for violating the Conduct in VR Policy is sent to a team of trained safety specialists for review. We also include the last few minutes of your Horizon Worlds audio and other interactions to help us investigate and determine what course of action to take. This content is deleted once the review has been completed.

Additionally, when you or others file a report, these safety specialists may also remotely view what's going on in the space to take further action, including removing the user from that experience or banning them from Horizon Worlds. To keep you up to date on the status of your report, we'll send you email confirmations.

Intellectual Property Policy: Your copyrights and trademarks

Horizon Worlds is committed to helping people and organisations protect their intellectual property rights. By installing, accessing or using Horizon Worlds, you agree to our Terms of Service. Our Terms of Service do not allow content that infringes someone else's intellectual property rights (e.g. copyright or trademark) when using Horizon Worlds. If a user repeatedly infringes someone else's intellectual property rights using Horizon Worlds, the user's Horizon Worlds account may be terminated under Horizon Worlds repeat infringement policy.

Please note that submitting a report of intellectual property infringement is a serious matter with potential legal consequences. Intentionally submitting misleading or otherwise fraudulent reports of copyright or trademark infringement may lead to Horizon Worlds taking action, including termination of your Horizon Worlds account.

For copyright, it's important to note that intentionally submitting a misleading or fraudulent report may also lead to liability for damages under section 512(f) of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) or similar laws in other countries.

Copyright

Copyright is a legal right that seeks to protect original works of authorship (e.g. books, music, film, art). Generally, copyright protects original expression such as words or images. It does not protect facts and ideas, although it may protect the original words or images used to describe an idea. Copyright also doesn't protect things such as names, titles and slogans; although these might be protected under trademark rights.

If you believe that someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can email a completed copyright infringement report to ip@oculus.com, including all of the information listed below. You can also post a complete copyright infringement report to the following address:

Designated agent

Meta Platforms, Inc.

FAO: Facebook Designated Agent

1601 Willow Road

Menlo Park, California 94025, US

Phone number: +1 650 543 4800

Email address: ip@oculus.com

We regularly provide the person who posted the content you are reporting with the rights owner's name, your email and the details of your report. If you are an authorised representative submitting a report, we provide the name of the organisation or client that owns the right in question. For this reason, you may wish to provide a valid generic business or professional email address.

If possible, before you submit a copyright report to us, you may want to send a message to the Horizon Worlds user you believe may be infringing your copyright. You may be able to resolve the issue without contacting Horizon Worlds.

Trademark

A trademark is a word, slogan, symbol or design (e.g. brand name or logo) that distinguishes the products or services offered by one person, group or company from another. Generally, trademark law seeks to prevent confusion among consumers about who provides or is affiliated with a product or service.

If you believe that someone is infringing your trademark, you can email a complete trademark infringement claim to ip@oculus.com (including all of the information listed below).

Before you report a trademark infringement claim, you may want to send a message to the relevant Horizon Worlds user you believe may be infringing your trademark. You may be able to resolve the issue without contacting Horizon Worlds.

What information do I need to include in a copyright or trademark infringement claim to Horizon Worlds?

Please include all of the following information when reporting a copyright or trademark infringement claim to Horizon Worlds:

• Your complete contact information, including your full name, postal address and phone number. We regularly provide the person who posted the content you are reporting with the rights owner's name, your email and the details of your report. If you are an authorised representative submitting a report, we provide the name of the organisation or client that owns the right in question. For this reason, you may wish to provide a valid generic business or professional email address. For this reason, you may want to provide a professional or business email address where you can be contacted.

• A description of the copyrighted work or trademark that you claim has been infringed. If you are submitting a trademark report, please include your trademark registration information, if applicable.

• A description of the content in Horizon Worlds that you believe infringes your copyright or trademark.

• A screenshot from Horizon Worlds of the content you believe infringes your copyright or trademark. Press and hold and press either one of your triggers to take a screenshot.

• The world name, world creator and any other information that would be reasonably sufficient to allow us to locate the material in Horizon Worlds.

• A declaration that:

  • You have a belief, in good faith, that use of the copyrighted or trademarked content described above, in the manner you have complained of, is not authorised by the copyright or trademark owner, its agent or the law;

  • The information in your claim is accurate;

  • Under penalty of perjury, you are the owner or are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright or trademark that is allegedly infringed.

• Your electronic signature or physical signature.

Community guides are there to help you learn about all there is to know in Horizon Worlds. From highlighting new experiences, to basic tips and tricks, they're around to help make your experience enjoyable.

You'll know you're talking to one of these guides because they have Community guide in their name tag. Community guides can also flag our trained safety specialists if they see or learn of inappropriate behaviour, so let them know if you become aware of something that's making Horizon Worlds feel unsafe or uncomfortable.