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 has a metaverse, too, and it’s built on… Microsoft Teams?! By designing its metaverse for online business and social experiences, Facebook (sorry, Meta) took aim at Microsoft’s own ...

Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Microsoft doesn't think there ever will be a single, centralized metaverse. Instead, he said Microsoft believes there will be many metaverse ...

The company is a major force in gaming, even without Activision. It also rules productivity. That could be a potent combination in the metaverse. With the announcement of its $69 billion deal to buy ...

Worried that Facebook will keep the much-hyped metaverse all to itself? Microsoft has something to say about that. The tech giant announced during its Ignite conference that it's building its version ...

Microsoft is making a strong bid to bolster its version of the metaverse as it looks to roll out 3D avatars and immersive meetings for its Microsoft Teams communication platform. You might define the ...

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A lot was said about the metaverse when the Microsoft deal to acquire Activision Blizzard was announced in January 2022. The attention was mainly on business communications rather than gaming. If ...

Microsoft's Xbox Series X (black) and series S (white) gaming consoles are displayed at a flagship store of SK Telecom in Seoul on November 10, 2020. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images According to an ...

One feature of Mesh for Teams lets users join meetings as customized avatars of themselves, shown here with on-camera participants. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft laid out its latest vision for a ...

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella recently boiled down the concept of what a “metaverse” is to what most of us have been thinking all along: It’s just games. “Take what’s happening with the ...