Microsoft presented his version

As we promised after the presentation of Mark Zuckerberg last week, the word “metavsel” sounds more and more often in business news. Now Microsoft has made a request to become the main competitor of Facebook, which was renamed Meta. Today, the company conducted a presentation of its platform for collaboration in virtual reality with the 3D-dutars of Mesh, which in 2022 will be integrated into Microsoft Teams. Unlike Tsuckerberg, drawing a picture of a fantastic VR world of the future, the company Satia Ondalels approaches metap products more practical and is already selling them to corporate clients.

The first Microsoft products for the future metavselnaya CEO Microsoft, Satya Ondalel presented at the annual conference of IGNITE. Although the development of the company is not in everything reminiscent of what Mark Zuckerberg showed last week, the practical end did not hesitate to use the concept popularized by the founder of Facebook. You can see the fully presentation of Microsoft here .

What is natural for a company focused on the development of office applications and sales for corporate customers, Microsoft's metavselnaya metavseli will be focused around the service for the joint remote operation of Microsoft Teams. The main element of the metavselnaya is the MESH service for the first time in this spring, which allows using virtual (VR) and supplemented (AR, the projection of virtual objects to the landscape of the real world) reality to create and visit virtual offices and any other spaces in the form of 3D apartars. In 2022, MesH will be integrated into Microsoft Teams. Attalela at today's presentation told how he attended a covid hospital in Britain with the help of the service, the Toyota plant and the International Space Station.

The 3D version of virtual meetings should save former office workers from the universally spreading “zoom-storage”, Nicole Gershkovitz, head of Microsoft Teams, explained in an interview with The Verge. For the same purpose, Microsoft develops a solution for Teams like Together Mode -a regime that allows, instead of gathering the windows built in rows of meetings at meetings in virtual offices or conference rooms.

You can join the MESH using different VR devices, including Oculus points that Facebook produces. Microsoft itself, however, has its own line of mixed reality devices HoloLens (the price for a set of such points, taking into account discounts, starts at $ 3000). However, users will be able to get into the virtual office without special devices-then they will have to be content with a 2D version.

Metavselnaya in the form in which it is a wide public - a futuristic digital world into which people transferred their entire offline life - still far away, said Odalla. But corporate clients are using it now. So, Microsoft has already made a digital copy of the office of the Accenture consulting company, which the company uses to introduce new employees in the affairs, and for the Anheuser Busch brewer - created copies of its factories and logistics chains integrated with real databases.

The main question is so far - how different segments of the metavselnaya, which will develop META, Microsoft, Roblox and other players, will contact each other, Bloomberg notes .

What am I to me?

Mark Zuckerberg, investing $ 10 billion per year, can be at least somehow suspected of Messianic searchlight, and at the same time in the desire to take attention from constant scandals around Facebook. But the superpraggmatical endel, who, with the help of boring cloud services, brought Microsoft from the existential crisis to the first line in the list of the most expensive companies in the world, is definitely not. In one form or another, the metavselnaya will be built and will become one of the main places for creating new businesses in the coming years.