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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 Industry Giants Team up to Save Key Developer Tool

Road to VR

Microsoft, Qualcomm and Magic Leap announced a partnership to “guide the evolution” of the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK), a cross-platform AR/VR development framework which has now gone open-source. Meanwhile, Microsoft announced MRTK3 is on track to reach general availability to developers on the second week of September 2023.

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Microsoft Mesh for Teams is now Available on Meta Quest Headsets

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Today, Microsoft is making its long—awaited Mesh for Teams immersive VR meeting platform available for enterprise end users. The service is now available for clients, allowing them to access Microsoft’s dynamic virtual remote meeting solution via desktop or Meta Quest headsets. Mesh is helping us achieve that.

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Microsoft Shuts Down Industrial Metaverse AI Projects

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This week, reports from BussinessInsider highlighted how Microsoft is closing down Project Airsim, an AI ambition tied to the firm’s Industrial Metaverse roadmap. As part of the closure, Microsoft is also laying off the project’s employees as it plans to discontinue the Azure AI-based service by December 15 2023.

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Accenture, Microsoft uses Metaverse to Unite Decision-Makers

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This week, the World Economic Forum (WEF) partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to scale its Global Collaboration Village , a Metaverse space for international business leaders and decision-makers. Microsoft to Develop Industrial Metaverse in 2024 Alongside its WEF Metaverse partnership.

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Microsoft Axes Social VR Platform & XR Interface Framework Amid Wide-reaching Layoffs

Road to VR

Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees, and with it the company is axing social VR platform AltspaceVR and its XR interface framework, Mixed Reality Toolkit. In a Hail Mary that few expected, Microsoft turned around and snapped up the ailing platform only two months after the planned shut-down date.

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Holo-Light Launches ARES AR Workspace for Engineering and Industrial Design

ARPost

Designing industrial machines is a highly specialized work, where attention to detail is of paramount importance. This is why industrial designers and engineers need to work with computer models and analyze each part of their designs before they move an item to the production phase. The Tool for the Future of Industrial Design.

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