Microsoft partners with Meta to bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox to VR

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“You can connect, share, collaborate as though you were together in person.”The Teams experience the new Quest Pro and Quest 2 headsets will even include Microsoft adapting Meta’s avatar system for Teams and Teams getting support within Meta’s own Horizon Workrooms.“We think that this cross-device, cross-screen experience will be the foundation of the virtual office of the future.”This virtual office of the future won’t just be about meetings.Microsoft appears to be hedging its own bets on the future of work in VR and AR headsets, or as Microsoft likes to call them, mixed reality.Alex Kipman, who led Microsoft teams that developed the company’s HoloLens headset and the Kinect motion controller, resigned after allegations of verbal abuse and sexual harassment earlier this year.You can expect to hear more about Teams and perhaps Microsoft’s 3D metaverse avatars tomorrow, as the company is holding its Ignite conference in Seattle, where it will discuss the future of work, security, and more."

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