Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
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Re: Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
#2Sad to see that hype not come to reality.
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#3It's sad to watch all these layoffs but canceling underperforming products/divisions completely makes a lot more sense than decimating the company as a whole.
Re: Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
#4Sad to see that hype not come to reality.
This is an actual physical product you can buy today: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy
Re: Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
#5Every business will can projects in their portfolio when belt tightening. VR and its multitude of derivative just isn't a core competency of M$. If anybody is to win this space then it'll be Apple IMO.
Re: Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
#6Every business will can projects in their portfolio when belt tightening. VR and its multitude of derivative just isn't a core competency of M$. If anybody is to win this space then it'll be Apple IMO.
It’s not like cutting other products will make the core offerings better. I’m sure they could double the Windows 11 team size and the start menu search would still take 10+ seconds to find the app I’m searching for. At least mixed reality was interesting.
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#7Re: Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
#8That is an extremely misleading headline. AltSpace and the geospatial anchor teams have been axed. Lots of folks were reduced across MR and HoloLens, but the teams weren’t completely fired
Re: Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
#9Every business will can projects in their portfolio when belt tightening. VR and its multitude of derivative just isn't a core competency of M$. If anybody is to win this space then it'll be Apple IMO.
It’s not like cutting other products will make the core offerings better. I’m sure they could double the Windows 11 team size and the start menu search would still take 10+ seconds to find the app I’m searching for. At least mixed reality was interesting.
Dear Lord, do not tempt them to increase the size of the Windows team, they might find more places to shove all the stupid ads in that OS.
Re: Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
#10Every business will can projects in their portfolio when belt tightening. VR and its multitude of derivative just isn't a core competency of M$. If anybody is to win this space then it'll be Apple IMO.
Apple's spend in this area is totally unknown, other than everybody expects them to. To contrast, Meta has been spending so much in this area that they've bet the company on it. It's anybody's game right now, but Meta already has launched products and iterated on them.