Microsoft Teams adds AI backgrounds as it moves to the metaverse
Microsoft’s metaverse will finally arrive in January, along with new Teams features that will allow users to decorate their backgrounds with AI. Over 320 million users use Microsoft Teams monthly, and Microsoft has identified two new features that it thinks they will care about: using AI to filter your voice (and just your voice) in Teams calls, and the rather wild ability to use AI to clean up your background.
Remember that in March 2021, Microsoft debuted Mesh as the VR metaverse of the future. Technical fellow Alex Kipman (who left in 2022 after allegations of abuse) disclosed that the whole Ignite conference was being held within Mesh. Now, at Ignite 2023, things have changed. Kipman’s gone. Microsoft’s HoloLens floats somewhere in the Schrodinger duality of product and non-product with the U.S. Army, and many of the development teams have been laid off. Meta (nee Facebook), of course, bet its future on the metaverse and then backpedaled in favor of AI. Consumers largely shook their heads and walked away from the concept of a metaverse as a whole.
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