The metaverse has a date with Microsoft Cloud.
The software behemoth Microsoft is attempting to expand its Cloud services into the metaverse amid the current metaverse frenzy.
The move was confirmed by Microsoft UAE’s chief marketing officer, Ihsan Anabtawi. “We should view the metaverse as the next step in the evolution of the internet, which began as an internet of data in the 1990s and 2000s, the internet of people in the 2010s, and is now the Internet of Things,” Anabtawi stated while speaking on the sidelines of GITEX Global 2022.
According to Anabtawi, the organization is using mixed reality, Teams, and Microsoft Cloud to create a bridge to the metaverse. Subsequently, regular services will include technologies like as Mesh and Hololens and Azure Digital Twins, an Internet of Things platform that generates a digital depiction of actual objects, locations, business procedures, and individuals.
“This isn’t a short-term investment; it’s bringing the full power of our work across multiple areas to enable the future of consumer and business computing in the metaverse,” he stated.
Microsoft said last year that Mesh, a metaverse-inspired solution for its Teams app, will be available on holographic devices, desktops, and smartphones. Digital user representations are introduced with this capability for applications such as Team calls. This function allows these avatars to interact with one another in a virtual, immersive environment.
Mesh is a means to “signal we’re in the same virtual space, we’re one team, we’re one group, and help take the formality down a peg and the engagement up a peg,” according to Jeff Teper, corporate vice president at Microsoft. We’ve seen that those tools have achieved the dual objectives of increasing individual engagement and team effectiveness.
In addition, Microsoft is a member of the Metaverse Standards Forum, an organization that encourages the development of open standards for metaverse technology. The organization’s main goal is to create standards that would enable all online metaverses to work together, ideally enabling smooth communication across different realms.