Great news for the 7 people who still use Webex around the world
Cisco today announced the launch of a Webex video conferencing app designed for the Apple Vision Pro. The app is designed to provide an immersive meeting experience that fills the space around the user.
The Webex app supports Personas, allowing Vision Pro wearers to have a visual representation of themselves in video calls while wearing the headset, and it also works with spatial audio.
Webex features such as AI background noise removal, real-time translations, closed captions, and live polling are integrated into the app. Meetings can be transferred between the Vision Pro and the Mac or the iPhone by opening up the Webex app and tapping the join button.
Webex can be downloaded from the App Store on Apple Vision Pro.
Article Link: Webex App Now Available for Apple Vision Pro
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Especially when most "apps" seem to just be putting up windows over the virtual space, something which frankly VisionOS ought to be able to do on its own already when running a base iPad app.
Cisco and its products, such as WebEx, are very prevalent in the enterprise space.
I gotta say my reaction to the Vision Pro (as presented by others and as informed by articles since I don't have actual direct experience) has surprisingly been pretty positive so far. I find that interesting because in the past, the way companies have tried to sell the idea of VR headsets was plainly just not acceptable to me; I wasn't buying it. Although I haven't read or watched everything Apple has presented about this VR headset, they seem not to make huge stupid claims about how it will just change your reality, etc. etc. Apple's approach and claims seem measured, and nuanced. While they probably are very experimental and "wild" behind the scene, what they are presenting and offering to the public seem overall nicely packaged, and again, measured.
I kinda like the term spatial computing rather than "virtual reality", because in many ways, this so-called virtual is actually very much part of our real reality universe. It isn't "virtual". We don't call having a phone conversation with someone a "virtual reality". We are having an audio conversation. Have we called video chatting experience a virtual reality? Maybe in the early years but I don't think so anymore. I don't know the historical genealogy of the term "virtual reality" but it seems to have a flavour of bringing something non-physical into your physical reality and it largely has to do with one's own and the culture's expectations. Sure, when over-the-air audio conversations or even sound technology was first experimented with, people may have understood or painted the phenomenon like having a ghost or virtual person speaking back to you. But the understanding of that phenomenon and the cultural expectation shifts over time and hardly anyone thinks of that kind of situation as "ghost like".
I guess this is a bit of a long-winded way to say I agree with Apple's use of "spatial computing" and not "virtual reality". In a sense, to name it virtual reality is somewhat old-fashioned because we no longer (at least in much of the modern world) really regard things like Zoom and FaceTime as "virtual realities". It's accepted now as very much a reality just like phone conversation over cellular network is not considered virtual but real.
An analogy could be that we may talk about ideas and ponder over things philosophical, but we don't say those are virtual. The discussion is happening and the ideas are in our mind and also being co-generated through discussion. We don't say those are virtual reality phenomena. They are part of our reality. Thinking and abstracting is part of our reality. It isn't virtual.
Also, no, I'm not going to buy a VisionPro. I have no use for it
It's also too expensive, for me. It took me until some time PAST 2013 to own my own cellphone ;-)
I kinda like the term spatial computing rather than "virtual reality", because in many ways, this so-called virtual is actually very much part of our real reality universe. It isn't "virtual". We don't call having a phone conversation with someone a "virtual reality". We are having an audio conversation. Have we called video chatting experience a virtual reality? Maybe in the early years but I don't think so anymore. I don't know the historical genealogy of the term "virtual reality" but it seems to have a flavour of bringing something non-physical into your physical reality and it largely has to do with one's own and the culture's expectations. Sure, when over-the-air audio conversations or even sound technology was first experimented with, people may have understood or painted the phenomenon like having a ghost or virtual person speaking back to you. But the understanding of that phenomenon and the cultural expectation shifts over time and hardly anyone thinks of that kind of situation as "ghost like".
I guess this is a bit of a long-winded way to say I agree with Apple's use of "spatial computing" and not "virtual reality". In a sense, to name it virtual reality is somewhat old-fashioned because we no longer (at least in much of the modern world) really regard things like Zoom and FaceTime as "virtual realities". It's accepted now as very much a reality just like phone conversation over cellular network is not considered virtual but real.
An analogy could be that we may talk about ideas and ponder over things philosophical, but we don't say those are virtual. The discussion is happening and the ideas are in our mind and also being co-generated through discussion. We don't say those are virtual reality phenomena. They are part of our reality. Thinking and abstracting is part of our reality. It isn't virtual.
Also, no, I'm not going to buy a VisionPro. I have no use for it
It's also too expensive, for me. It took me until some time PAST 2013 to own my own cellphone ;-)Perhaps they don’t want to creep out their customers?
Who knows. It's all conjecture. What they did release was excellent.
No need to scrub for nefarious motivations, even though that's what many people here live for to knock companies down a few notches.
Webex statement is misleading, I live on Webex Team for my work and I do have Webex Team on my AVP but it is missing my direct communication to team members and my Groups, I can not send message or have a web call to my Colleagues, Yes I do see all my meetings and can schedule a new meetings and my status is green.