Microsoft Mesh

Not to be confused with Windows Live Mesh.
Microsoft Mesh
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial release2023; 1 year ago (2023)
Stable release
5.2417.58.0 / 11 November 2024; 5 days ago (2024-11-11)[1]
PlatformWindows
TypeMixed reality
Websitewww.microsoft.com/en-us/mesh Edit this on Wikidata

Microsoft Mesh is a cloud-based platform for collaboration in mixed reality, offering it both as an app and as a service. Microsoft Mesh leverages Microsoft 365 to allow people in different physical locations, using different types of devices, to participate and collaborate in a shared immersive space. There are two different applications of Mesh: Immersive Spaces in Teams and custom environments that are developed with Unity and currently used with a dedicated Mesh client application.

While Microsoft makes the Hololens 2 and has partnered with most major PC manufacturers like HP to build Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets, Microsoft Mesh is designed to be device and operating system agnostic, however, it currently supports only Windows and Meta VR headsets.

It makes use of elements of the AltspaceVR platform Microsoft acquired in 2017.[2] Mesh was first announced at Microsoft's Ignite conference in 2021.[3]

Microsoft has worked with companies such as Accenture and Takeda to test Mesh.[4]

  1. ^ "Microsoft Mesh". Microsoft Apps. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  2. ^ "Microsoft Mesh feels like the virtual future of Microsoft Teams meetings". The Verge. 2 March 2021.
  3. ^ Sag, Anshel. "Microsoft's Mesh Platform For Mixed Reality Puts Microsoft At The Forefront Of XR Collaboration". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  4. ^ "Microsoft Mesh is a virtual meeting platform on Teams". Engadget. 2024-01-25. Retrieved 2024-04-06.