Near future
Contact us
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • energia
  • Transportation
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • Gadgets
  • Italy Next
  • H+
June 25 2022

Coronavirus / Russia-Ukraine

Near future

Microsoft Mesh, the virtual future of mixed reality dating

Mixed reality for Microsoft has a transformative function to say the least: it increases interaction and breaks down distances. Will this be the future?

Gianluca Riccio di  Gianluca Riccio
March 2 2021
in Technology
Microsoft Mesh and mixed reality
Send to FacebookPin on PinterestSend on TwitterSend on Whatsappon Linkedin

Last week Alex Kipman from Microsoft, the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens, appeared in the living room of some of his colleagues to show them jellyfish and sharks.

It wasn't a strange dream, but a mixed reality encounter made possible by the new Microsoft Mesh platform. You put on a HoloLens 2 headset, enter a virtual meeting room and the interlocutor appears next to our furniture at home: it's Microsoft's vision for the future of VR and AR or, better said, mixed reality.

Is this how video calls or remote meetings will play out in the near future?

Microsoft Mesh, let's enter mixed reality

Mesh is a collaborative platform that allows anyone to share virtual experiences across a variety of devices. “This was the dream of mixed reality, the idea from the start,” explains Kipman. “You can actually feel like you're in the same place with someone sharing content with you. Or you can teleport from different mixed reality devices and be present with people even when you are not physically with them. "

Maybe you are also interested

Microsoft will (without haste) withdraw its technology that reads emotions

Tesla 'chains' employees to the office, and Microsoft starts ripping them off

Inclusive Tech Lab, Microsoft creates adaptive accessories for those with disabilities

Microsoft also has a vision for the future of hybrid work

In a first phase, Microsoft Mesh will present people as virtual avatars taken from the AltspaceVR social network that Microsoft acquired in 2017. Later, Microsoft software it will support what Microsoft calls "holoportation," which will allow people to appear as if they are in a virtual space.

The virtual meeting with Microsoft Mesh

During a meeting lasting about an hour, Kipman appeared next to his colleagues as avatars and began to “bring” mixed reality objects (specifically virtual jellyfish and sharks) to his colleagues. It was possible to remodel them, return them or simply observe them. A prime example of collective interaction in mixed reality, to put it briefly.

Imagine a future with such well-developed technologies. A technician can guide customers in repairing an item they have at home, without physically going there. Engineers, architects and designers who work together on 3D models without necessarily being in the same place. What about business meetings in person? Things to be reserved only for the great occasions: for everyday life it will be enough to wear the viewer and "sit" in a mixed reality environment.

What do you need for the boom?

mixed reality
Part of the presentation with James Cameron (right)

Few details stand between us and a mixed reality future, but they are far from negligible. First of all the price: devices like Hololens of Microsoft are still out of reach of the public, for what they offer also in terms of engagement. It will also take a lot of work on the part of developers to create mixed reality applications capable of reaching the general public.

For this Microsoft is gearing up, however, with three pieces of 90: the director James Cameron, Niantic (developers of Pokémon Go) and the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil. They were among the protagonists of the demo that Kipman showed to colleagues. Virtual concerts? Sure, a chance. A version of Pokémon Go to play simply by wearing glasses? It would make a bang. Absolutely.

Now it will depend on the ability of companies: to market hybrid work and play modes it could change the rules of the game as the world emerges from the pandemic to enter a new reality.

A mixed reality.

tags: Microsoftmixed reality

Maybe you are also interested in:

marilyn monroe
Society

Marilyn Monroe cover girl again, yet another 'digital resurrection'

graphene electronic tattoo
Medicine

Graphene electronic tattoo checks blood pressure 24 hours a day

metaverse academy france
Technology

Everyone at metaverse school: Meta launches the “metaverse academy” in France

COLLABORATE

To submit articles, disclose the results of a research or scientific discoveries write to the editorial staff
  • solar paint

    Solar paint: where are we?

    378 Shares
    Share 151 Tweet 94
  • Meta shows the impact of the Metaverse in its new campaign

    371 Shares
    Share 148 Tweet 93
  • New 3D batteries: electric vehicles over 98% charged in less than 10 minutes

    1335 Shares
    Share 534 Tweet 334
  • Dawn of the Millirobot Planet: Here are 6 truly incredible ones

    1987 Shares
    Share 794 Tweet 497
  • A thermoelectric ink can lead us to heat-powered devices

    261 Shares
    Share 104 Tweet 65

archive

Have a look here:

Environment

3 technologies for a future without food waste

Food waste around the world is at insane levels. To reduce them, technology and inventiveness can transform waste into ...

Read More
big bang theories

Not just Big Bang: here's what else could have happened

DIRC3, A molecule that can stop melanoma has been identified

Because micromobility is here to stay (with Italy 2nd in the world)

KiteKRAFT, flying wind turbine, a real wind kite

The daily tomorrow

Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Environment
Architecture
Artificial intelligence
Gadgets
concepts
Design

Staff
Archives
Advertising
Privacy Policy

Medicine
Spazio
Robotica
Work
Transportation
energia

To contact the FuturoProssimo editorial team, write to [email protected]

Chinese Version
Édition Française
Deutsche Ausgabe
Japanese version
English Edition
Edição Portuguesa
Русское издание
Spanish edition

The daily tomorrow

Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

Chinese Version
Édition Française
Deutsche Ausgabe
Japanese version
English Edition
Edição Portuguesa
Русское издание
Spanish edition

Staff
Archives
Advertising
Privacy Policy

Subscribe to our newsletter

To contact the FuturoProssimo editorial team, write to [email protected]

Categories

This work is distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
© 2021 Futuroprossimo

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • energia
  • Transportation
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • Gadgets
  • Italy Next
  • H+