Meta Quest 2 - Management, licensing and group use

[CestM0i]

Hiya,

 

Hopefully this is the closest to the appropriate area of the forum. Mods, I welcome you to shunt it around if there is a better place.

 

We've just picked up 6 Quest 2's for use as virtual experiences and I'm hoping that there are some users here that can inspire me with ways that they are managing/using them.

 

I've also just come off of a call with Meta and although it's left me with more questions there may also some be some answers that others find helpful here? So I'll place them at the bottom of this post.

 

Meanwhile, it looks like we should set these devices as consumer devices until there is more news from Meta. There is currently no supported MDM solution but from my own research ArborXR seems like a popular MDM and is free for organisations with under 50 users. If there is anyone in the community with any experience using AborXR to manage Quest devices I'd love to hear their experiences, as there is currently no volume licensing framework the main use case would be security, does this bolt on to the Oculus OS or is it an OS in its own right?

 

I'd love to hear how others are using and managing these devices

 

I may also drop Impero/Netsupport a message to see whether they have anything in the pipeline

 

Thanks

Jon

 

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Meta Call notes:

 

Quest for Business (replacement for Oculus for Business) time frame -

- Open beta should have arrived in 2022 and has been pushed back to 2023, Rep is hoping Q1 or Q2 but is in the dark

 

QfB cost -

- Scalable but no news on what this will look like

 

MDM -

- Should be coming with Quest for Business

- Quest for business is designed to be able to easily onboard and offboard consumer devices

 

Volume Licensing -

- No Idea, it would seem daft not to but there is currently no information on whether this will exist

- Hopefully moving licenses from consumer licenses to a volume license will be possible

 

Horizon Rooms as a breakout space into other apps -

- New idea to my rep, going to pass it up

 

Classroom management -

- seems like education will want this but it doesn't sound as though Meta have really considered education openly