Get started in Horizon Workrooms

Horizon Workrooms is a VR collaboration tool that provides teams with a virtual space across VR and the web for people to connect and work together. Workrooms (Beta) is currently available for free from the Oculus store for Meta Quest 2.

With Workrooms, you can:

• Bring your desk, computer, and keyboard into VR.
• Collaborate with teammates on a persistent virtual whiteboard.
• Share your screen, meeting notes, and files in VR.
• Configure your virtual room’s layout to match your needs.
• Feel a sense of presence with spatial audio, expressive avatars, and Hand Tracking.
• Schedule meetings in VR with calendar syncing for Outlook and Google Calendar.
• Join VR meetings by video calling from your web browser.

To safely and comfortably use Workrooms, we recommend having a space of at least 4 feet x 4 feet (1.22 x 1.22 meters) to use your virtual desk, or 6.5 feet x 5 feet (1.98 x 1.52 meters) to use the virtual whiteboard.

Workrooms was designed to bring your real-life work desk into VR. While you don’t need to have a physical desk, you will need to have a level, flat surface available to use Workrooms.

The Workrooms (Beta) VR app is available on the Oculus Store for Meta Quest 2 in these countries. The Workrooms web app is available globally in countries where Facebook is available.

A Meta Quest 2 headset is required for the first person who creates a Workrooms account for your team, and for anyone who wants to join meetings in VR. People can also join Workrooms meetings from video call on desktop if they don’t have a Meta Quest 2.

You can download and install Horizon Workrooms from the Oculus Store using your Meta Quest 2 headset or the Oculus mobile app.

If you’re the first of your teammates to try Workrooms, you can sign up to create a new Workrooms team at workrooms.com. If your team is already using Workrooms, they can send you an email invite to join their existing Workrooms team.

In order to use Workrooms on your Meta Quest 2, you will need to download and install the Workrooms VR app and create a Workrooms account.

To log in to Workrooms in VR:

By signing up for a Workrooms account for your company or team, you will create a Workrooms team that others can be invited to join. The person who creates a Workrooms team becomes the team’s admin.

Within a Workrooms team you can set up workrooms. Each workroom is a virtual space to meet and collaborate with others. Anyone with a Workrooms account invited to a workroom will become a member of that workroom and will be added to the team that owns the workroom.

Workroom members can book meetings in workrooms they are a member of. They can also invite people to meetings, even if they are not members of the workroom. We refer to these non-member invitees as workroom guests. Anyone invited to a meeting in a workroom can invite other members or guests to that meeting.

The first person who creates a Workrooms team is also its admin. Admins are required to pair an Meta Quest 2 headset, which must be logged in with Facebook, before they can continue to use the Workrooms app and invite people to join them. Admins also control membership in their team and are responsible for the content and behavior of other members in their team.

If you’re creating a new Workrooms team, or if you want to join a Workrooms meeting in VR, you will need to log into your Meta Quest 2 headset, which requires a Facebook account.

To create a Workrooms account, you are only required to enter your name and email on the Workrooms web app. Guests invited to a workroom should be older than 18 and will be asked to confirm their age before they can join a meeting.

To provide feedback for Workrooms:

To use your computer in VR in Workrooms, you’ll need to first download and install Oculus Remote Desktop for macOS (Big Sur, Catalina and Monterey) or Windows (10 and 11). Oculus Remote Desktop lets you pair your computer to your Oculus headset, streaming what is on your computer screen into VR.

You’ll be prompted to download Oculus Remote Desktop after you create your Workrooms account. You can also download it from Settings in the Workrooms web app, or from the links below:

To use your computer in VR with Workrooms:

Workrooms supports keyboard tracking for compatible models to bring your physical keyboard into VR. If your keyboard is not supported, you can turn on Passthrough for your virtual desk to see your keyboard on your physical desk while in VR.

To bring your keyboard into VR in Workrooms:

If your keyboard is supported, it will appear in VR after you select it from the list. For best results, make sure there is enough light in the room you’re in so that your headset can detect your keyboard.

To use your keyboard in Workrooms with Passthrough:

This will create a transparent section on your virtual desk so that you can see your keyboard on your real desk.

Workrooms supports the following tracked keyboards:

• Apple Magic Keyboard
• Logitech K830
• MacBook Pro 13” (2016-2020)
• MacBook Pro 15”
• MacBook Pro 16”

We’re working on adding support for more keyboards in the future.

To adjust your virtual desk:

If you’re having trouble with your Workrooms account, please contact your Workrooms team admin or contact Oculus customer support.

If you can’t log in to your Workrooms account because you forgot your password, click Forgot password? from the Enter your password screen in the Workrooms web app.

Workrooms team admins can also force a password reset from the People tab under Settings in the Workrooms web app.

You can view Workrooms profile data and content in the Workrooms web app, and can also view and download certain Oculus information that’s associated with your VR activities in the Oculus Privacy Center.

For additional instructions on how to download your available Workrooms data, please contact Meta Store support.

To provide feedback for Workrooms:

The Workrooms web app is built on top of Workplace from Facebook and hosted on workplace.com.

Workrooms can’t access, view or store images or videos of your own physical environment from the Meta Quest 2 sensors. Raw images from device sensors are processed on the device and overwritten instantaneously, which means it does not leave the device or reach Facebook servers.

If your email is associated with a verified Workplace domain, or you have previously created a Workplace team with this email, you will need to use a separate email to register your Workrooms account.

To delete your Workrooms account: