Microsoft Teams and 365 apps are coming to Apple’s Vision Pro spatial computing service.
As well as central Teams capabilities such as video conferencing, file sharing and chat, Teams utilises the advanced features of Apple Vision Pro to enhance user experiences on video calls, including Personas, infinite canvas for collaboration, and interactive chats powered by emojis and reactions.
Lori Craw, Director of Marketing for Modern Work at Microsoft, wrote in an accompanying blog post:
With the Microsoft Teams app on Apple Vision Pro, you can use all your communication and collaboration capabilities of Microsoft Teams. Meet, chat, call, collaborate, and engage with your business processes – be a part of all Teams has to offer in the smart place to connect, communicate, and work together.”
Users can download Teams from the App Store on Apple Vision Pro beginning Friday, February 2.
Teams on Vision Pro
When users wearing Apple Vision Pro join a Teams call, they appear as a Persona — a digital representation reflecting their face and hand movements in real-time. This innovative integration aims to elevate virtual communication and collaboration experiences by providing dynamic visual representations more concisely.
Because users often need multiple Teams windows open at the same time, Teams on Apple Vision Pro leverages an infinite canvas, enabling users to open apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, scale them freely, and position them for seamless content access in meetings and chats. The platform also supports straightforward collaboration with 3D content, allowing users to share and preview such content in Teams chats and channels.
Teams chat are also enlivened by the introduction of reactions and together emojis, which Craw described as having “a greater sense of depth and dimension, which help make your chat interactions more expressive and meaningful”.
Teams also ensures a smooth transition of meetings and calls across devices, allowing users to switch seamlessly without disrupting the meeting flow. With a button press tap, users can transfer their Teams meeting from desktop or mobile to Apple Vision Pro, or vice versa, maintaining continuity and flexibility in their communication experience.
365 on Vision Pro
As well as Teams, users can download Microsoft Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and Loop from the App Store on Apple Vision Pro.
Users can leverage PowerPoint to create impactful presentations that set them apart. The Immersive Environment on Apple Vision Pro allows users to rehearse a presentation as if addressing an audience, enhancing their preparation for a lasting impression.
With Excel, Apple Vision Pro’s infinite canvas offers a more productive workspace. Users can graph complex formulas, charts, and tables, utilising the synergy between Excel and Apple Vision Pro to analyse, manipulate, and visualise data. This allows users to break free from display limitations by transferring graphs and charts to other documents or Teams chats, unlocking new possibilities for data interaction.
With Apple Vision Pro Immersive Environments and Microsoft Word’s focus mode, users can block out distractions and immerse themselves in the document they are prioritising.
Apple Vision Pro’s dynamic with Copilot is particularly compelling.
As with using a desktop or mobile version, Copilot in Vision Pro allows users to be more engaged in the meetings they attend and catch up for the ones they can’t. Copilot also drafts, edits, summarises and generates alongside the user using the spatial computer. Users can begin a new presentation from a basic prompt or outline using natural language commands. Within the headset, users can identify trends, produce meaningful visualisations, or ask for recommendations for different outcomes.
What Other Microsoft News Has There Been This Week?
The week began with Teams recovering after an extensive outage last Friday left people unable to use the service.
Microsoft confirmed the issue on X at 8:45 a.m. PST, saying they were investigating an issue impacting multiple Microsoft Teams features. At 9:17 a.m. PST, Microsoft identified a networking issue affecting a portion of the Teams service and initiated a failover to address the impact. Real-time outages monitor Downdetector reported around 14,500 incidents related to Microsoft Teams by 10:41 a.m. PST.
Users faced several challenges, such as difficulties logging in, missing messages, failed message loading, and delays in sending and receiving messages.
Happier news for the Redmond-based giant emerged through Microsoft publishing its quarterly earnings, highlighting the impressive revenue growth that the market now expects.
The business reported its best-ever quarterly sales for the fifth quarter in a row, affirming its novel position as the world’s most valuable company — although Apple’s earnings are just around the corner. Overall sales for the quarter ending December 31, 2023, climbed 18 percent to $62bn, while revenue attributed to Microsoft Cloud grew a quarter to $33.7bn.
Additionally, Cisco, Microsoft and Samsung jointly announced a series of meeting room solutions at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2024. The combined room kits entail Cisco devices powered by its RoomOS software and integrated with Samsung smart signage displays featuring Microsoft Teams with Front Row.
The underlying ambition of the collaboration is integrating video collaboration solutions into the Cisco Room Series. These solutions include Front Row, an inclusive content layout specifically designed for Microsoft Teams Rooms.
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