djchump wrote:As a VR fan, it's great to get an affordable standalone HMD (thanks largely to Carmack and Rubin's efforts mind, not Zuck)
djchump wrote:Will have a huge bag of popcorn while watching FB try to kickstart a piss-poor corporate metaverse cos Zuck thinks he's Halliday/Morrow in Ready Player One, but he quite obviously Sorrento.
The first offering, a version of Microsoft’s Teams chat and conferencing program that features digital avatars, is in testing now and will be available in the first half of 2022. Customers will be able to share Office files and features, like PowerPoint decks, in the virtual world.
The technology uses Microsoft software announced earlier this year called Mesh that enables augmented reality and virtual reality experiences across a variety of goggles, including Microsoft’s own HoloLens. Microsoft’s metaverse apps will work with the Oculus googles made by Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook. Customers who lack a device capable of displaying 3D images can experience the content and avatars in 2D.
“You can absolutely expect us to do things in gaming,” he said “If you take Halo as a game, it is a metaverse. Minecraft is a metaverse, and so is Flight Sim. In some sense, they are 2D today, but the question is, can you now take that to a full 3D world, and so we absolutely plan to do so.”
poprock wrote:
So if you put two and two together, Oculus support is coming to Xbox at some point. Now that has my attention.
poprock wrote:I miss Kinect.
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