{"id":130127,"date":"2021-11-06T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T21:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/microsoft-teams-enters-the-metaverse-race-with-3d-avatars-and-immersive-meetings"},"modified":"2021-11-06T14:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T21:13:15","slug":"microsoft-teams-enters-the-metaverse-race-with-3d-avatars-and-immersive-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/microsoft-teams-enters-the-metaverse-race-with-3d-avatars-and-immersive-meetings","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-teams-enters-the-metaverse-race-with-3d-avatars-and-immersive-meetings2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is entering the race to build a metaverse inside Teams, just days after Facebook rebranded to Meta in a push to build virtual spaces for both consumers and businesses. Microsoft is bringing Mesh, a collaborative platform for virtual experiences, directly into Microsoft Teams next year. It\u2019s part of a big effort to combine the company\u2019s mixed reality and HoloLens work with meetings and video calls that anyone can participate in thanks to animated avatars.<\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s announcement, Microsoft and Meta seem to be on a collision course to compete heavily in the metaverse, particularly for the future of work.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Mesh always <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22308883\/microsoft-mesh-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-hololens-vr-headsets-features\">felt like the future of Microsoft Teams meetings<\/a>, and now it\u2019s starting to come to life in the first half of 2022. Microsoft is building on efforts like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/8\/21317526\/microsoft-teams-together-mode-dynamic-view-new-features\">Together Mode<\/a> and other experiments for making meetings more interactive, after months of people working from home and adjusting to hybrid work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is entering the race to build a metaverse inside Teams, just days after Facebook rebranded to Meta in a push to build virtual spaces for both consumers and businesses. Microsoft is bringing Mesh, a collaborative platform for virtual experiences, directly into Microsoft Teams next year. It\u2019s part of a big effort to combine the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}