Meetings may show a personalized avatar, a live video, a static picture, or a bubble with initials.
I’m still present and engaged, and the people that are there feel like I’m present and engaged.” “I’d love to be able to turn on my avatar. “Sometimes I just want to be able to sit in my chair downstairs and have my heat pad on, but maybe it’s not that appropriate,” said Katie Kelly, a principal project manager at Microsoft working on Mesh for Teams, in a prepared statement.
The new features should launch as a preview of the Mesh for Teams software in the first half of 2022. Microsoft will use audio cues to animate avatars in an upcoming 2022 release of its Mesh For Teams software, and it’ll allow employees to represent themselves as avatars during meetings.
