A meeting in Microsoft Mesh, with an animated avatar (left), in-person participant (center) and photorealistic avatar (right) collaborating on a live virtual simulation. (Screenshot from Microsoft ...

Zoom calls and video meetings have exploded over the past year (thanks, COVID), but a flat screen doesn’t do a great job of transmitting a person’s presence. To make remote meetups a bit more personal ...

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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 augmented-reality headsets. Instead of ...

Microsoft Corp. unveiled software tools designed to make it easier and less expensive for people to access virtual reality and augmented reality content, and for more creators to build these digital ...

Microsoft launched its plans for virtual reality Tuesday at the Ignite Developer Conference. Microsoft Mesh will eventually allow for VR experiences and users to connect across devices and platforms.

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Last week Microsoft became the first major tech company to host a keynote presentation fully in virtual reality. Despite many moving parts, the company managed to delivery a seamless, immersive ...

Microsoft is filling out its set of mixed reality tools with a real-time collaboration platform called Microsoft Mesh. Officials showed off demos and futuristic scenarios involving Mesh on March 2, ...

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Events have been going virtual for a full year now, with the pandemic preventing physical meetings and forcing companies to innovate. But no one’s taken it quite as far as Microsoft Ignite — which ...