Microsoft has announced 3D avatars and immersive virtual environments for meetings, per The Verge and others. “We got hit by meeting fatigue in the virtual world,” said Nicole Herskowitz, Microsoft Teams general manager during an interview with The Verge. “After 30 or 40 minutes max in a meeting, it was very hard to stay engaged and focused,” she added. The news follows Facebook’s corporate rebrand to Meta, a name that CEO Mark Zuckerberg said better explains what the company does—and intends to do. “All of our products, including our apps, now share a new vision: to help bring the metaverse to life. And now we have ... (full story)