In Brief:
- Microsoft entering into metaverse through an update in Teams and Xbox gaming console
- The company will also launch Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces to link with the metaverse
- Users will be able to customize their avatars in metaverse as well as hold meetings with other
Leading Tech company Microsoft is taking steps into the metaverse through the update to its Teams and Xbox gaming console services, along with the new product named “Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces.”
Last week, While attending a Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed plans for Teams and Spaces.
“The Metaverse enables us to embed computing into the real world and to embed the real world into computing. Bringing real presence to any digital space. What’s most important is that we are able to bring our humanity with us, and choose how we want to experience this world,” Nadella said.
The update for Microsoft Teams will be dubbed “Mesh” and its rollout will be in 2022, which provides users with personalized digital avatars and immersive spaces to meet other users “that can be accessed from any device, with no special equipment needed.”
The company will also make some changes and build custom spaces with new themes and features such as meetings or “Social Mixer.”
To combine metaverse and artificial intelligence (AI) technology in business, Microsoft scheduled its product Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces for its first preview in December 2021.
“With the power of your existing cameras, harness computer vision and observational data to help complete the picture—giving a new perspective into people, places, and things,” wrote Vishal Sood, general manager of Connected Spaces, in a Tuesday blog post.
“You can absolutely expect us to do things in gaming,” Nadella said and added:
“If you take Halo as a game, it is a Metaverse. Minecraft is a Metaverse, and so is Flight Sim. In some sense, they’re 2D today and the question is can you now take that to a fully 3D world, and we absolutely plan to do so.”
As cryptoverse is expanding many leading tech giant companies are diving into the metaverse. Recently, leading social media platform Facebook allocated $50 million funds to build metaverse in the next two years.
