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Microsoft Expands Its Plans for the Metaverse

Facebook isn't the only company supporting mixed reality. Microsoft has been actively building for the metaverse and showcased its latest efforts at this year's Ignite conference. Specifically, Microsoft is expanding its Mesh platform to work with Teams, and the company hopes to integrate it with Xbox and gaming soon. And don't worry, Microsoft's metaverse will likely support Excel and PowerPoint. Learn more below, along with everything announced at CEO Satya Nadella's opening keynote.

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    Microsoft's Metaverse Ambitions

    Facebook wants to build a metaverse. Microsoft is creating something even more ambitious
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    Facebook wants to build a metaverse. Microsoft is creating something even more ambitious

    Rather than ruling one metaverse, Microsoft wants its Mesh platform to be the glue that holds a multiverse of many worlds together. Microsoft Teams has 250 million users worldwide. And starting in 2022, they will be able to take meetings in virtual spaces, by donning virtual-reality and …

    Mesh for Teams is Microsoft’s metaverse for meetings
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    Mesh for Teams is Microsoft’s metaverse for meetings

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    A week after Facebook articulated its future in the metaverse, Microsoft offered its vision for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) meetings in Microsoft Mesh for Teams at its November Ignite developer event. The service, the company says, combines the AR/VR capabilities of Microsoft Mesh — which …

    What Microsoft Announced at its ignite conference

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    Loop app from Microsoft keeps projects in sync across Microsoft 365

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