Mar 2, 2021 13:28 EST with 3 comments Microsoft today announced a new mixed reality (MR) platform called Mesh at its spring Ignite keynote. The platform, powered by Azure, aims to bring a more immersive experience for AR and VR applications across multiple form factors, including PC and mobile, and hints at a greater focus on MR by the firm across not just enterprise, but consumer domains as well. At the keynote, Microsoft’s Alex Kipman appeared in 3D form in a virtual environment with attendees, showing off Mesh and talking about the various capabilities that the virtual collaboration platform will bring to users. Through the way of virtual avatars in a shared environment, or life-sized models of people wearing HoloLens devices via “holoportation”, the firm envisions bringing people closer virtually using the platform, for both work and play. Kipman added: