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Mesh public preview does not appear in Teams?
Holger_Duempelmann
I wanted to get back to you that I've been TRYING to get Mesh immersive spaces to work in Teams since it was announced.
And it *wouldn't work*!! Until today and it doesn't quite work even then.
In Teams it should not even require a Premium license, just one of the Business or Enterprise licenses per user (which I have with E5).
I contacted someone inside Microsoft to try to nudge the preview team to see if they forgot to flip a switch or something- and wouldn't you know it, all of a sudden it WILL turn on now, today-- but it doesn't *quite* work....
One key is the version number for your Teams CLASSIC client (it ends in 28452- mine updated today, but I've *been* updating my client over and over since last week).
A quick run down of what you need in the client
-- be sure you're running the desktop client
--be sure that client is CLASSIC. It won't work in new (LOL)
--be sure you have Public Preview enabled (the EA should be on your profile medallion)
--be sure you're on the correct version 1.6.00.28452
I am having other issues with it (like I can't get the environment to change, I can't get audio set up correctly because I can't add the app to Teams correctly, it doesn't have an add button the card)
Please let me know if you can get it to work now, because I really, really a public preview buddy to compare my settings and problems with. 😉
The only thing that does not work yet:
The link to Mesh in a team appointment does not work yet.
Here you have to click separately on the right mouse button and select Open separately. At the moment, this is rather a minor issue.
I am not a developer, but a Business & Sales Consultant and I develop and sell ideas to customers. I know many comparable VR/AR collaboration solutions.
Here is my personal first impression of Mesh:
Of course Mesh at this stage still has far too little functionality compared to the other solutions and also the movements of the avatars need to become smarter. And I don't mean missing legs :-).
But Microsoft already manages to make a difference and offers things that I have not yet seen in other solutions.
- That is the selection of seating arrangements, which has really been solved super simply and well.
- There is very great emphasis on high-quality good-looking spaces right from the start. That certainly increases acceptance.
- Also, the integration into Teams is already pretty good and so already unique.
I won't write about the missing and desirable functions yet, because I'm sure they will be added quickly.
The only real criticism and limitation, in my opinion, is that there is no clear statement about whether accounts outside the tenant can be invited.
That would be a great, great pity if this did not happen, because it would mean that the use cases that have a very fast ROI for companies and are critical to the company cannot be realised. Examples are virtual trade fairs, VR in the sales process, HR assessment ....
And what surprises me!
Mesh was originally MixedReality. Now it is completely Virtual Reality.
Where is Augmented?
- It is completely Virtual Reality. Fingers crossed Mixed Reality comes back again. I do appreciate the team focusing on VR only at this point, so they can progress it on that track. While I loved HL2 Mesh preview app, it isn't the priority today for me and in my cases with the Mesh. In the future I would love to see Mixed + Virtual Reality in the same space. Especially when thinking about the industrial metaverse, digital twins, education/learning scenarios.
Accounts outside of the tenant can't be invited. Now is the best to think use cases for Mesh that are inside the tenant. Of course there is a workaround: having a separate tenant where accounts are provisioned for users and everyone is using those. But that that requires more licenses, more management, more automation with account, more complexity and thus more money.
