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Microsoft Officially Launches Avatars for Teams

XR Today - Virtual Reality

During its online Build event this week, Microsoft officially unveiled that its long-coming Avatars for Teams service will drop as general release integration is available on Windows and Mac. Windows and Mac users can access the integrated, immersive service for Microsoft Teams via the desktop application.

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Microsoft Announces Mesh, a Foundation for Building Multi-user XR Applications

Road to VR

Today during the Microsoft Ignite developer conference, the company announced Mesh, a new cloud-based service which Microsoft says will streamline the creation of multi-user XR applications. Soon to be offered under Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing arm, Mesh is a foundation for building multi-user XR applications.

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Microsoft Teams Introduces Frontline AR Tools for iOS, Android

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Microsoft highlights how companies can benefit from Team’s enterprise-ready and proven end-to-end encryption, data loss prevention, and compliance certifications when leveraging the AR service. Microsoft is planning for device-wide general availability in 2024.

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XR Talks: Microsoft Doubles Down on AR

AR Insider

A mong tech giants investing in AR, Microsoft continues to show strong signs as a leading platform for enterprise productivity. That not only includes its best-of-breed hardware in the Hololens 2, but an expanding suite of software (it is Microsoft after all) for enterprise AR. XR Talks: Follow the Money for AR’s Trajectory.

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The AR Space Race, Part VII: Microsoft

AR Insider

As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” continuing here with Microsoft. Among tech giants investing in AR, Microsoft continues to show strong signs as a leading platform for enterprise productivity. What’s Microsoft’s XR Play?

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The XR Week Peek (2023.01.23): Microsoft shuts down Altspace and MRTK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. For sure, not having Microsoft backing it will slow down a lot of its development.

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3 Examples of AR’s ‘B2B2C’ Opportunity

ARVR

Opportunities in augmented reality are often divided between consumer-based endpoints (think: Snap Lenses) and enterprise productivity (think: Microsoft Hololens). Niantic Sponsorship Program Our third example is a bit of a departure: Pokémon Go. But what about the space between? link] Originally published at [link] on May 11, 2022.

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