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Immersive events in Microsoft Teams: Now generally available

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Dec 01, 2025

We’re excited to announce the general availability of immersive events in Teams! This milestone brings 3D event experiences natively into Teams, making it easier to host engaging, interactive events that bring people together on PC, Mac, and Meta Quest devices.

With immersive events, organizers can create tailored 3D environments where attendees join as avatars, interact naturally, and feel truly present. Because immersive events are built directly into Teams, you can plan, manage, and host immersive experiences using the familiar tools you already know – your Teams calendar, chat, and collaboration features. Simply open Teams, schedule an immersive event, and start designing your space.

Immersive events can help drive enhanced engagement and connection for your workforce across multiple points of interest in a single branded event with a tailored experience—ideal for all hands, showcases, company events, new employee onboarding, and trainings.

 

Note: With this general availability milestone, Microsoft Mesh is retired as of December 1, 2025. Read further for more details on this transition.

Designed for flexibility and connection

Immersive events in Teams deliver everything you need to create a deeply engaging experience, whether hosting a small internal meeting or a large organizational event.

  • Build your event space your way
    Customize your venue with your brand logos, images, 3D models, videos, text, and interactive elements, and even sequence the experience for storytelling and impact. The intuitive editor enables creative freedom without the need for coding skills.
  • Start faster with pre-designed templates
    Choose from ready-to-use 3D environments tailored for common event types such as all-hands meetings, webinars, and team celebrations.
  • Deliver with confidence
    Presenter tools simplify setup and execution, with one-click starts, integrated Q&A, and efficient attendee management so you can focus on the message, not the logistics.
  • Stay secure and compliant
    Immersive events inherit the same enterprise-grade identity management, security, and privacy protections built into Microsoft 365.
Easy to use presenter tools enable you to manage shared content, lobby experiences, and attendee interactions.

Experience immersion on familiar devices

Join immersive events from the Teams app on PC, Mac, or Meta Quest devices for lifelike interactions that enhance collaboration and deliver rich experiences.

  • Dynamic platform designed for business impact
    Engage directly in the Teams event window or step into full 360° VR on Quest to unlock impactful business use cases.
  • Flexible access for all
    Offer seamless participation from both Teams desktop and the immersive events app on Quest, giving your team choice and convenience.
  • Enterprise-ready VR deployment
    Set up Meta Quest devices quickly with identity integration and MDM enrollment, ensuring secure, compliant sign-in to immersive events.
Immersive experiences in Teams support Meta Quest devices.

Bring your event to life with action groups

Make events more immersive and memorable. Action groups in Teams let you create dynamic, interactive experiences without writing a single line of code. Instantly trigger animations, play audio or video, reveal content, and switch visuals on the fly. Whether it’s launching a welcome sequence, powering a live quiz, or showcasing a 3D model, action groups give organizers controls to engage audiences in real time.

Action groups in Teams give presenters more options to engage audiences with dynamic, interactive experiences on the fly.

Licensing

Hosting immersive events in Teams requires:

  • A qualifying commercial Teams license, and
  • A Teams Premium license, which enables immersive event capabilities.

Co-organizers and attendees only need a standard Teams license, such as Microsoft 365 E3/E5 with Teams or Teams Enterprise.

Transition from Microsoft Mesh

The general availability of immersive events in Teams follows the previously announced retirement of Microsoft Mesh as a standalone platform. This change reflects our continued investment in bringing immersive experiences into Teams for a more integrated and scalable 3D meeting solution.

As of December 1, 2025:

  • Users will no longer be able to attend Mesh events via the Mesh PC or Quest apps.
  • The “Immersive space (3D)” view in Teams meetings will be removed.
  • Joining Teams meetings via the Mesh Quest app will be disabled.
  • The “mesh.cloud.microsoft” website will be decommissioned.

If your organization has relied on Mesh for immersive meetings or events, now is the time to transition to immersive events in Teams, in order to take advantage of these new experiences.

Get started today

Creating an immersive event in Teams is simple:

  1. Open your Teams calendar.
  2. Select New event, then choose Immersive event.
  3. Customize your environment, invite participants, and host your event.
Customize your immersive event by configuring access, experience templates, attendee experiences, privacy protection, and more.

 

Help prepare your organization for immersive events in Teams (includes optional Meta Quest deployment guidance), and learn how to get started with immersive events in Teams to transform your next online event into a high-impact 3D experience.

Updated Dec 01, 2025
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