Latin America. Microsoft Mesh is a new mixed reality platform, powered by Azure, that enables people in different physical locations to join collaborative and shared holographic experiences across many types of devices.
“This has been the mixed reality dream, the idea from the beginning,” said Alex Kipman, technical associate at Microsoft. “You can actually feel like you’re in the same place with someone sharing content or that you can teleport from different mixed reality devices and be present with people, even when you’re not physically together.”
Microsoft Mesh will allow geographically distributed teams to have more collaborative meetings, hold virtual design sessions, attend others, learn together, and hold virtual social gatherings. Initially, people will be able to express themselves as avatars in these shared virtual experiences and, over time, use holotransportation to project themselves as their more realistic and photorealistic selves, the company said.
The new platform is the result of years of Microsoft research and development in areas ranging from hand and eye tracking, and the development of HoloLens to create persistent holograms and artificial intelligence models that can create expressive avatars.
Built on top of Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Microsoft Mesh also benefits from Azure’s enterprise-grade security and privacy features, as well as its vast computational resources, data, AI, and mixed reality services.
“Increasingly, we are building value on our smart cloud, which is Azure,” Kipman said. “In these collaborative experiences, the content is not inside my device or inside my app. The holographic content is in the cloud, and I only need the special glasses that allow me to see it ”.
With Microsoft Mesh-enabled applications, designers or engineers working with 3D physical models, from bicycles to high-end furniture, jet engines and new sports stadiums, could appear as themselves in a shared virtual space to collaborate and iterate on. holographic models, regardless of their physical location.
The Microsoft Mesh platform will offer developers, in the coming months, a complete suite of AI-powered tools for avatars, session management, spatial processing, synchronization across multiple users and holotransportation to build collaborative solutions in mixed reality. company.
Although users will have the richest experiences in mixed or virtual reality, the open standards of Microsoft Mesh will give developers the freedom to build solutions that work on many devices: HoloLens 2, a range of virtual reality headsets, smartphones, tablets and PC.
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Author: Richard Santa, RAVT
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Journalist from the University of Antioquia (2010), with experience in technology and economics issues. Editor of the TVyVideo + Radio and AVI Latin America magazines. Academic coordinator of TecnoTelevisión & Radio.
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