The latest features added to Microsoft Whiteboard has been the ability to add video and links there. Microsoft Whiteboard new features: links and videos Of course the well of wishes is a deep and full but the Microsoft Whiteboard seems making progress there all the time. What people hope to see next is the ability to share Whiteboard with externals outside meetings as well. For example the one of big recent changes was the ability to choose which Whiteboard to use in a Teams meeting and allowing external attendees to work on the same Whiteboard during the meeting. It has made great progress during the past year – transforming itself completely and catching up on competitor’s features. I am going to leave that thought to linger in the metaverse and come back to the Microsoft Whiteboard. At least they both have a huge user-base combined (thinking number of Facebook users and Teams having 270+ Million Monthly Users already). Pure speculation, but would be a interesting step in making the one “true” Metaverse. And to make that a win-win I would not be surprised to see Microsoft then supporting Horizon Worlds and Venues as commercial Metaverse platform with Mesh integration. With Meta and Microsoft partnership and ability to join Teams meetings from Meta Horizon and especially the ability to use Meta Quest devices to join Mesh Spaces and utilize Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and SharePoint) & later Windows 365 cloud PC can also mean that perhaps Horizon Workspaces will be deprecated and business users are encouraged to use Mesh Spaces instead. Looking at Microsoft Ignite videos I don’t think it will be a very long time until we will be seeing Mesh immersive spaces in action. Of course Meta Horizon Workrooms are already there (and I will start exploring them more with my new Meta Quest Pro, expect some articles about this later!) and Mesh immersive spaces are not yet out for use. The Whiteboard in Meta Horizon leaves a lot of hope for improvement and the overall spaces do not feel they would enable the work there as intended. I have also tried Meta Horizon Workrooms, but I have to say that it does lack a lot of features when comparing to upcoming Mesh Spaces. A truly versatile tool that will enable to make facilitation and workshopping in the Metaverse a true hybrid experience. This means that people can be working on the same board synchronously or asynchronously from “everywhere” – they may be typing to the Loop component, adding notes or adding new elements there. And let’s not forget how Loop components will be making Microsoft Whiteboard even better in December ( current roadmap target) and forward: inserting a Loop component to the Whiteboard allows people to change it’s content where-ever that same component is places: in Teams, in Outlook and in Word web version (this one is coming soon – my guess is December-January, fingers crossed). This means that Whiteboard is working through all different verses – people could be in the meeting room and physically draw on Surface Hub together, while some are in the virtual Mesh Space and see what’s happening at the same time. For example you can work on the same digital board using your laptop, your tablet, with Surface Hub or even using your phone or in the upcoming Microsoft Mesh Immersive meetings. Since you can use, for example Microsoft’s version, Whiteboard across multiple devices to bring everyone together to the same digital canvas it is a true Metaverse-tool. Whiteboard is an essential tool when it comes to working together in the Metaverse.
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