Microsoft today announced the Microsoft Mesh, a platform built on Microsoft Azure, enabling developers to build immersive, multi-user, cross-platform mixed reality apps.
Microsoft Mesh enables its users to connect with any presence, share across space, & collaborate in an immersive way as if they were in person regardless of physical location. Customers can leverage Mesh to enhance virtual meetings, conduct virtual design sessions, assist remotely better, learn together virtually, host virtual social gatherings & meet-ups, announced Microsoft.
People can connect from anywhere & be in the same room, using the same tools. They can do so by accessing Mesh on HoloLens 2, VR headsets, mobile phones, Tablets, or PCs – using any Mesh-enabled app.
Mixed reality is the 4th wave in computing followed by Mainframes, PCs, & smartphones. MR is going mainstream across consumers & commercial, liberating screen-bound experiences into instinctual interactions in your space, among your things, with your people.
But, as Microsoft says, there are still problems in MR to be solved. Representing people in MR with appropriate realism requires a lot of time & resources. Also, keeping a hologram stable in a shared MR space across time & device types is another issue. All of these have stopped developers from enabling MR experiences for multi-user scenarios. It is this set of challenges that Microsoft Mesh intends to solve. Mesh provides a platform for developers to design immersive multi-user MR apps without having to worry about complex technical problems.
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mesh?rtc=1
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