Microsoft Partners with Meta to Bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox to VR

Slide into squeaky corporate office chair, and put on VR headset. Suffer small coffee burn while logging into Microsoft Windows VR. Login animation transitions to "Are you a human?". After a few runs in Mark Zuckerberg's Normal Handshake Simulator, verification ends with "Rate this app". Try to force a positive emotion, as to not get fired. Headset's brain activity sensor performs a satisfied beep, as Windows Hello Enterprise loads, while recording my eating habits based on my average heart-rate. Notice my feigns didn't work, as Windows VR Desktop layout has been updated with floating Unemployment Simulator VR ads to deter quitting. Tell Cortana to load VR skin. Steve Ballmer eating a cardboard donut starts Microsoft Teams VR while dancing like it's Windows 95 release, which transitions into an open landscape of people unintentionally slapping eachother while trying to mute their VR microphones. Join meeting, proceed to drool at 60 minutes of PowerPoint VR animations in slowmotion.

I really need to sleep.

MS Engineer: "Five years in and the Teams user experience is still garbage. At least there's no way to make it any more terrible, right?"

Meta Engineer: "Hold that thought..."

This makes one wonder what insiders at MSFT and Meta leadership know about Apple's plans for mixed reality. Feels like a 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' type move.

Seems like the same problem as Facebook for work.. If you are an EU regulator weighing any right to privacy (or to reject any ToS) as someone with limited control, like a worker, then the contents of a ToS from Meta is irrelevant because any claims they make are not credible.

Microsoft might have had a vague chance with avatars instead of video in the EU on its own, after a good dance for the the safe haven problems.. And that's before getting to the problem of user acceptance, hopefully Clippy can talk us all into loving this.

I'm connected enough with office apps. I don't want them taking over my sight and sound reality completely, mother of Satan that's evil

Teams is still trying extremely hard to provide a usable text chat, and now they want to go to VR?

The hubris!

Eww... good god no.