Microsoft Metaverse vs Facebook Metaverse

 Microsoft Metaverse vs Facebook Metaverse

Microsoft's Satya Nadella recently showcased his companys's foray into the Metaverse at its Ignite conference. This comes on the heels of Facebook's recent Connect conference when Mark Zuckerberg announced he is changing its name to Meta, short for Metaverse.

See how both CEOs are moving full steam ahead with VR technologies that they hope will make it possible to collaborate easier in this digital space.

After spending most of my time in group video conferencing for the past two years, Are office workers around the world ready to take the next step in the digital world?

This week Microsoft outlined plans to introduce 250 million users of its Teams software to a virtual world called the metaverse. The move follows Facebook's vision for office meetings run in a virtual world. And it comes days after the social media company changed its name to Meta to reflect its focus.

Microsoft has a metaverse too, and it's built on… Microsoft Teams?!

By designing the metaverse for online business and social experiences, Facebook (sorry, Meta) is aimed at Microsoft's own experiences for collaboration and blending. In the first half of 2022, Microsoft has pledged to deliver a metaverse for online meetings across everything from smartphones to hybrid headsets. The technology? Mesh for Microsoft Teams (although the concept is called the metaverse is rather stretchy).