Enable new forms of personal and professional communication, to cope with the restrictions of the pandemic and the expansion of smart working.
Microsoft unveils Mesh, a platform that reproduces the participants of a conversation as if they were holograms.
The technology, presented during the first day of Ignite 2021, a conference that the American giant dedicated to developers and experts, is already available for HoloLens 2, Microsoft's mixed reality viewers, and will arrive over the next few months on other reality devices. virtual as well as iOS and Android smartphones, tablets and computers.
"The will is to allow people to feel close even when they are on different continents, giving them the opportunity to interact with 3D content or with their interlocutors through apps enabled on any platform or device - explains Microsoft - Mesh will be integrated with Teams and Dynamics 365 and new experiences will be enabled by the partner ecosystem. "
At first, the Mesh participants will be reproduced as avatars but as the community grows, you will have what the company defines as a real teleportation of your likeness.
At that point, anyone with the app will be able to interact with others in 3D form, albeit with a better immersive rendering through the use of HoloLens 2 and VR viewers.
"Microsoft Mesh connects the physical and digital worlds, allowing us to transcend the traditional boundaries of space and time," said a holographic version of Alex Kipman, Microsoft Technical Fellow at Ignite.
"This has been the dream of mixed reality from the very beginning. You can really feel together with others even when you are not physically with them."
Regarding Teams, Microsoft has announced some improvements to its collaboration solution, including different ways of viewing shared content and greater security for data exchanged during meetings, between video, audio and file streams.
Along the same lines, Azure and Microsoft 365 updates, which increase the protection of users' identities.
