Your convention calls could soon get a contact more distracting if rumors of a brand new addition to Microsoft Teams show true.
The video conferencing platform is seemingly planning to carry quite a few video games to Microsoft Teams in what seems to be an effort to assist enhance worker morale.
Sources advised The Verge (opens in new tab) that quite a few Windows classics are among the many video games being steered, together with the likes of Solitaire.
Several titles from the corporate's Casual Games platform are set to be a part of the transfer, so it is not like Microsoft is encouraging staff to launch full-scale gaming periods throughout work hours.
Instead, plainly the plan is more to assist kill a couple of minutes, for instance when you're ready for somebody to hitch the decision, with a fast recreation of Connect 4 (one other title set to be included).
Microsoft refused to touch upon the hearsay when requested by The Verge, with the same request from SociallyKeeda Pro additionally going as but unanswered.
However such a transfer would make sense, as the corporate has been pushing to make utilizing Microsoft Teams seem to be much less of a chore in current months.
Quite a few updates have regarded to make utilizing Teams more nice, together with a number of generations of avatars to characterize you on a name utilizing its Together Mode, which shows a dwell avatar for every participant.
Avatars can wave, faucet one another on the shoulder and even high-five, and look to assist handle considerations about video name contributors typically seeming unengaged by exhibiting precise feelings and facial expressions.
The firm has additionally outlined plans to introduce 3D avatars soon alongside more immersive Microsoft Teams conferences inside the so-called "metaverse" later in 2023.
This is regardless of some senior Microsoft figures expressing worries concerning the safety of the metaverse, with Charlie Bell, the corporate’s Executive Vice President for Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management, lately noting that the metaverse, very like all different quantum leaps in expertise, brings with it numerous fraudsters and criminals
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