During the SharePoint Conference North America keynote, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jeff Teper announced SharePoint spaces, a new mixed reality experience for millions of enterprise users around the world. While HoloLens is quite popular among some industry verticals, Windows Mixed Reality is relatively new for the enterprise market. With this announcement of SharePoint spaces, Microsoft mainstreams…
During the SharePoint Conference North America keynote, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jeff Teper announced SharePoint spaces, a new mixed reality experience for millions of enterprise users around the world. While HoloLens is quite popular among some industry verticals, Windows Mixed Reality is relatively new for the enterprise market. With this announcement of SharePoint spaces, Microsoft mainstreams mixed reality for the enterprise. SharePoint spaces will allow users to view and interact with content from every angle and visualize and manipulate data and product models in real-time. It will also everyone to create visually compelling spaces that are available to anyone, on any device.
Microsoft mentioned that SharePoint spaces will enable following scenarios that improves communication, learning, and collaboration:
There are two important parts of SharePoint spaces. First is the ability to create immersive experiences with point-and-click simplicity. Microsoft is offering smart templates to create a mixed reality environment complete with different surroundings, ambient sounds, rich textures, and lighting. Using the templates, users can add their own content, including the already existing enterprise files in SharePoint. Second, the created immersive content can be consumed on any device—in a browser, mobile browser, or headset.
SharePoint spaces will be available for free to all Office 365 Commercial customers. You can sign-up for limited preview by visiting SharePoint spaces.
