HoloLens 2 now has full Microsoft Teams integration

Microsoft has lengthy supported real-time video calls utilizing Microsoft Teams on HoloLens 2 headsets, however now the corporate is bringing full Teams integration to its combined actuality headset. HoloLens 2 customers will now have the ability to freely name individuals instantly, browse and add Teams contacts to calls, and even view calendars and be a part of group conferences.

Microsoft can be permitting HoloLens 2 customers to see what individuals are sharing in conferences, too. A brand new stay video stream of shared screens will seem as a hologram that may be moved and resized.

Microsoft Teams has largely been used on HoloLens 2 for distant help eventualities the place an engineer or assist individual would dial into a gathering or name and be guided by an issue. Teams customers on desktop or cellular will see the HoloLens 2 video feed from the point of view of the one who is carrying the headset, just like how a GoPro on a helmet information the skin world.

Microsoft additionally has Dynamics 365 Guides for on-the-job coaching with the HoloLens 2, and it’s combining the Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Guides options to make the HoloLens 2 headset extra adaptable to hybrid work eventualities.

HoloLens 2 customers can now even use textual content chat throughout Teams calls and entry photos or PDFs shared in a name as holograms. OneDrive integration powers the file sharing and viewing expertise, so recordsdata are all synced and obtainable throughout a number of units.

These software program enhancements are the primary main adjustments we’ve seen since Alex Kipman, the co-creator of HoloLens, left Microsoft earlier this 12 months after allegations of verbal abuse and sexual harassment. Reports have urged that Microsoft has scrapped plans for a HoloLens 3 and that it could possibly be the tip of the street for the headset. Kipman denied these experiences earlier than exiting Microsoft, and now, Microsoft’s new head of combined actuality is hinting {that a} new HoloLens is on the way in which.

“We’re just looking for the right design point to make it a meaningful update,” says Scott Evans, Microsoft’s vice chairman of combined actuality, in a blog post. “[Businesses] want a successor device that’s going to enable an even higher return on investment.” Evans argues that, in contrast to customers who wish to change their units typically, companies don’t wish to make their current headsets out of date for under slight enhancements. “They don’t need a successor yet, but they want to know it will be there at the right time.”

Microsoft says it’s planning to enhance the HoloLens show, monitoring, sensors, and battery life in no matter its “meaningful update” to the HoloLens headset can be. Microsoft has additionally been testing a particular model of its HoloLens headset with the US Army. Those checks haven’t been going effectively, in keeping with experiences, with troopers reportedly complaining about complications, nausea, and eyestrain. Microsoft gained a collection of contracts doubtlessly price tens of billions of {dollars} to provide the US Army with its AR headsets, and the military took supply of 5,000 headsets in September.