Microsoft has laid off its Industrial Metaverse Core team, amounting to about 100 people, according to a Thursday report by The Information (paywalled). This industrial metaverse team is called ...

When Microsoft first introduced its Industrial Metaverse Core in October 2022, it hoped to provide clients with an operating system that could manage a variety of industrial robots and other equipment ...

Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Microsoft doesn't think there ever will be a single, centralized metaverse. Instead, he said Microsoft believes there will be many metaverse ...

The tech giant has decimated its Altspace, HoloLens, and mixed reality teams as the company CEO talked about making 'changes to our hardware portfolio.' Reading time 3 minutes After the dust cleared ...

Microsoft has confirmed its is laying off staff working on Hololens, Surface, and Xbox products, as reports surface that it will cut its industrial metaverse unit. Facing macroeconomic uncertainty and ...

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Understandably, not everybody can afford to drop $1,500 on a pro-level mixed-reality headset for entertainment purposes - not until the metaverse and VR/AR headsets become more widely adopted, like ...

A lot was said about the metaverse when the Microsoft deal to acquire Activision Blizzard was announced in January 2022. The attention was mainly on business communications rather than gaming. If ...