More than a year and a half into a global pandemic that forced workers around the world to abandon their offices and learn to collaborate online, Microsoft productivity experts have observed two ...

When Microsoft first introduced its Industrial Metaverse Core in October 2022, it hoped to provide clients with an operating system that could manage a variety of industrial robots and other equipment ...

Microsoft has laid off its Industrial Metaverse Core team, amounting to about 100 people, according to a Thursday report by The Information (paywalled). This industrial metaverse team is called ...

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Microsoft (MSFT) has ended a project that aimed to encourage the use of the metaverse in industrial environments just four months after it was formed, according to a report by The Information on ...

A lot was said about the metaverse when the Microsoft deal to acquire Activision Blizzard was announced in January 2022. The attention was mainly on business communications rather than gaming. If ...

Understandably, not everybody can afford to drop $1,500 on a pro-level mixed-reality headset for entertainment purposes - not until the metaverse and VR/AR headsets become more widely adopted, like ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new virtual reality headset and the addition of legs to metaverse avatars Oct. 11 at Meta Connect, a yearly event displaying new technology from the company ...