Microsoft shutting down VR platform AltspaceVR - The Tribune India

IANS

San Francisco, January 22

Microsoft has announced plans to unopen down its societal virtual world level AltspaceVR, which offered immersive societal spaces for radical to interact with friends and colleagues arsenic 3D avatars.

In 2017, Microsoft stepped successful and acquired the level aft AltspaceVR decided to unopen it down, and present the institution said it volition unopen down the work connected March 10, 2023.

The tech elephantine volition displacement its absorption to enactment immersive experiences powered by Microsoft Mesh (a level which enables beingness and shared experiences from anyplace -- connected immoderate instrumentality -- done mixed world applications.

"With Mesh, we aspire to physique a level that offers the widest accidental to each involved, including creators, partners and customers," Microsoft said successful a blogpost.

"We look guardant to what is to come, including our motorboat of Microsoft Mesh, a caller level for transportation and collaboration, starting by enabling workplaces astir the world," it added.

Moreover, the institution mentioned, successful the adjacent term, it volition beryllium focusing its VR efforts connected workplace experiences, learning from and alongside its aboriginal customers and partners, and ensuring that it delivers a instauration that enables security, spot and compliance.

The quality of the shutdown comes aft Microsoft confirmed it would laic disconnected 10,000 employees done the extremity of March.