Microsoft Teams Will Let You Transform Into a 3D Avatar in May
Ever since Microsoft has been dropping hints about its avatars in 2021, people have been eagerly waiting to give it a try. Imagine how convenient it would be to sit home in your pajamas and not have to get dressed, since your avatars can now take over for you.
Virtual meetings have gained a lot of popularity with the expansion of remote working and with that, the use of Microsoft Teams increased too. While people enjoyed using the virtual meeting tool, the one thing they often found uncomfortable was having to switch on their cameras when at home. Now, with the introduction of 3D avatars, Microsoft has taken virtual meetings to a whole new level and made it easier for people to attend meetings irrespective of whether they’re having a bad hair day or their kids are creating a commotion in the background.
What Are 3D Avatars?
Talks of the 3D avatar have been doing rounds for a while, with Microsoft initially planning to launch it in 2021. Finally, with all its testing in place, 3D avatars are ready to make their way into Microsoft Teams in May this year.
If you’re wondering what the avatar is all about, it’s a virtual image of you that you can create on the platform. If you’re not in the mood to turn on your camera, your avatar can take over and can mimic animation actions based on your voice cues.
The avatars are not binary and you can choose if you want your camera on or if you want your avatar to take over. You can customize the avatar any way you like, so it resembles you as closely as possible.
Speaking to the Verge in 2021, the Product manager for Microsoft, Katie Kelly stated that the avatar will be able to animate voice cues. It will closely replicate the person and make others in the meeting feel like there’s an actual person present even when it’s just their avatar.
Microsoft also has plans to use the avatars in 3D meetings. It has even partnered with Meta to create VR headsets to make these meetings look as realistic as possible. The avatars will also manage to share emojis and raise hands like a real person while attending a meeting.
Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.