Holograms, in the post-COVID hybrid workforce, may be joining in-person attendees at business conferences before long. The coming decade could in fact see holographic tele-presence—as made famous by a virtual performance from the late rapper Tupac Shakur at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2012—making its way into more everyday settings like the company staff meeting.
At a recent Microsoft Ignite conference for developers and IT professionals, Microsoft showed how its Microsoft Mesh mixed reality platform, incorporated with Microsoft Cloud, will transform communication using avatars and what they call “holoportation.” During a keynote, director James Cameron spoke with Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman to demonstrate Mesh while wearing Microsoft HoloLens 2 headsets. Using Mesh, people will be able to teleport onto a lab on a ship or a factory floor, according to Microsoft.
