Microsoft Teams is about to go 3D with VR meetings
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#6GD3H)
Image: Microsoft When I first used Microsoft Mesh, the company's mixed reality platform, I said it felt like the virtual future of Microsoft Teams meetings." Now, nearly three years later, Microsoft is making immersive 3D Teams meetings a reality. In January, Microsoft Mesh is being integrated into Teams to allow co-workers to meet together in a virtual space - no VR headset required.
It's a big shift in Microsoft's original vision for Mesh - an entire platform built on top of Azure that Microsoft hoped developers would tap into - but then a lot has changed with Microsoft's VR / AR ambitions over the past few years. Microsoft's HoloLens boss, Alex Kipman, left the company last year following misconduct allegations. Six months later, Microsoft shut down...