MetaQuest for Business has been released. Following a series of reveals last month, the Menlo Park-based company has officially launched its enterprise-grade XR device management and deployment hub.
The platform is a subscription service that supports enterprise end users utilizing Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro devices. Meta Quest for Business also helps clients deploy devices and applications across their teams.
Enterprise end users in supported regions, including the US and UK, can sign up for Meta Quest for Business now. Meta also offers Shared Mode and Support Plus as additional features of the service. Meta is also offering a 30-day trial for potential customers.
Additionally, for customers who purchase the shared mode feature, Meta Quest for Business does not require meta accounts for employees to participate. This has been a long-standing concern for Meta as it enters the digital business solutions landscape.
Meta Quest for Business comes as a partial revamp following the company’s long-ago offering of a VR headset subscription service for businesses closer to the Occulus era.
Meta Quest for Business: What’s New
The enhanced service offers more ways to manage XR workspace devices. Meta gathers many of its service tools in its admin portal, allowing teams to assign Meta headsets to active subscriptions.
Once devices are connected to the Meta Quest for Business hub, team leaders can manage and maintain them. Team leaders can also assign Meta Quest devices with individual business add-ons.
Using the management portal, Meta Quest for Business provides a team management hub where leaders can assign accounts and devices along with additional automation tools to streamline the process.
Meta Quest for Business is also built-in. An MDM solution that gives team leaders direct control over a fleet of headsets. Again, the management portal allows team leaders to leverage MDM capabilities to set up bulk provisioning, assign profiles, review device status, configure WiFi support, reset PIN access, remotely wipe devices, and more.
The built-in MDM solution gives you access to a small lineup of third-party XR MDM service providers, including Invanti, VMware Workspace ONE, and Microsoft Intune.
Meta Quest for Business also enables team leaders to manage XR application and software deployments.
Meta Quest for Business provides administrator control over how Quest headsets access applications, whether to deploy applications privately to a small group of users or publicly for broad deployment. Application management services simplify immersive application deployment by eliminating the need to access a device’s store to download applications individually.
Additional services available through Meta Quest for Business
In addition to the core services that make up the Meta Quest for Business subscription plan, Meta also offers additional features that customers must pay for separately to enhance the platform.
Meta Quest for Business’s shared mode provides customers with an additional level of control. Team leaders can assign shared mode to individual headsets that can be used regularly by multiple workers.
Additional features provide personalization and coordination for ongoing transitions between workers. In particular, shared mode eliminates the need for meta accounts and allows team leaders to set up broader verification for a more consistent experience across users.
Shared Mode is another add-on to Meta Quest for Enterprise, priced at £8.99 per month per device. Enhance your customer experience with a 24-hour support line that enterprise customers can subscribe to.
Meta and enterprise, long-term goals?
The revamp of Meta’s enterprise suite comes as the company sets its sights on delivering the future of work. Following the lukewarm response to Quest Pro, Meta is laying the foundation for an industry metaverse and following in Microsoft’s footsteps to shape the future of work through immersive solutions.
Lecture on the future of immersive services in the workplace, Dan Nieves, Meta’s Engaged Global Executive, Reality Labs; Last month at IGS 2023, we discussed the then-upcoming Quest for Business solution.
Nieves explained:
Metaverse technology and AI are truly changing the way we experience the physical and digital worlds. Clearly, as I think about this moment, it will always be the most enriching way for all of us to be in the same room and together in the physical world. – But increasingly, team members are becoming dispersed and dispersed. So it is actually the combination of the physical and digital worlds that defines our reality.
Dan Nieves says companies are leveraging technologies like VR and MR to create new opportunities to benefit society. Nieves added that a wide range of XR use cases are available for enterprises, particularly in education, healthcare and workplace collaboration. Many organizations are already experiencing the real impact of these technologies.