Microsoft shuts down its social VR platform AltspaceVR amid shift in priorities - The Indian Express

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“As we look to the future, we spot the accidental for VR expanding beyond user into concern and present person an adjacent greater goal: a much open, accessible, and unafraid mentation of immersive experiences successful the metaverse,” reads the blog post. “With Mesh, we aspire to physique a level that offers the widest accidental to each involved, including creators, partners and customers.”

AltspaceVR was 1 of the archetypal virtual world societal networking apps that let users crossed headset and web platforms to articulation 3D chat rooms to play games, ticker videos and be events. When the startup was astir connected the verge of illness successful 2017 owed to fiscal reasons, it got acquired by Microsoft arsenic portion of its efforts to make its ain mixed-reality ecosystem. Now, with AltspaceVR shutting down, Microsoft says users tin download their information and contented from the VR platform.

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Microsoft is inactive successful the contention for metaverse with its Mesh platform, a work to physique apps for radical to collaborate successful augmented reality. However, lately, the institution has been scaling backmost connected its metaverse ambitions. Just past week, Microsoft said it would chopped its planetary workforce by 5 percent, with astir 10,000 layoffs. The layoffs widen to Microsoft’s AR and VR departments, with Windows Central reporting the full squad down AltspaceVR appears to person been axed. In fact, Microsoft has reportedly axed the squad down the ‘Mixed Reality Tool Kit’ oregon MRTK, a fashionable cross-platform model for virtual world spaces. In caller years, the part down the HoloLens headset has fig of challenges, particularly after the departure of Alex Kimpan, who erstwhile pb the teams processing Microsoft’s mixed-reality headset and Kinect.

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