[Software] Microsoft Teams adds AI backgrounds as it moves to the metaverse

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Microsoft’s metaverse will finally arrive in January, along with new Teams features that will allow users to decorate their backgrounds with AI. Over 320 million users use Microsoft Teams monthly, and Microsoft has identified two new features that it thinks they will care about: using AI to filter your voice (and just your voice) in Teams calls, and the rather wild ability to use AI to clean up your background. As to the latter, it sounds like what you might think: Teams identifies your background as a picture, and then optimizes it. Begone, clutter!There are a number of smaller features that Microsoft is adding to Teams, which we’ll mention in a bit. First, however, is a big feature which you’ll likely not care about: the debut of Microsoft Mesh. Remember that in March 2021, Microsoft debuted Mesh as the VR metaverse of the future. Technical fellow Alex Kipman (who left in 2022 after allegations of abuse) disclosed that the whole Ignite conference was being held within Mesh.

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