Microsoft layouts report important VR and Metaverse teams-metaverse
Microsoft layouts report important VR and Metaverse teams-metaverse
The recent discharge round at Microsoft, which has announced that it has been reducing 10,000 jobs this year, has reportedly hit important teams for its VR (virtual reality) and meta-severse efforts. The company will complete two projects in these areas, AltSpacevr and the mixed reality tool KIT, which may affect Microsoft's progress in these areas.
Microsoft VR and Metaverse teams affected by layoffs
The last round of discharge announced by Microsoft am January 18, has VR initiatives (Virtual Reality) of the company, which may affect progress in these areas. In the context of this restructuring process, teams behind initiatives such as Altspacevr and the Mixed Reality Tool KIT are deleted among the 10,000 jobs that are to be dismantled this year and make up 5 % of the global workforce of Microsoft.
Alspacevr, which was taken over by Microsoft in 2017, has already announced this sunset its platform on March 10th. The platform, which aimed at facing the creation of virtual environments for events with the participation of artists, creators, brands and companies, migrated to MESH, a platform geared towards work, which has integration with Microsoft Teams. The Mixed Reality Tool Kit, an open source set by User interface for the metaversum too Creating is allegedly also being given up, as there are no announcements of new teams at the time of writing.
While the company justified these layoffs as a measure to adapt its cost structure to sales and customer demand, some believe that these localized layoffs in the meta-verse and VR sector signal the slowdown of the company's progress in this area. The reported layoffs at Microsoft affect initiatives that mainly focus on the consumer meta psum and follow the course that Meta took deploying 11,000 bodies, which reduces 11,000 bodies become. However, managers at Microsoft believe in meta -verse and other disruptive technologies and the progress that they will bring in the future. Recently Satya Nadella, CEO of the company, explained that the feeling of presence that can bring meta-verse technology is groundbreaking. Microsoft is also involved in the foundation of the Global Collaboration Village-the metaver world of the world economy forum (WEF)-And has shown interest in investing in AI projects (artificial intelligence) such as Openaai, the creators of the AI-Bots Chatgpt. What do you think about the layoffs that affect Microsoft's meta verse and VR-focused teams at Microsoft? Tell us in the comment area below. Bedy verification : Shutterstock, Pixabay, Wikicommons metaverse and VR decrease
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