Immersive events in Microsoft Teams, a new way to host interactive and engaging virtual events

Microsoft

Jul 28, 2025

In today’s fast-paced world, capturing attention and building meaningful connections is more important than ever. It’s no longer enough to just share information, people want experiences that engage, inspire, and feel real.

While in-person events remain foundational, virtual and hybrid formats have become essential for their reach, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. As organizations embrace more ways to connect through digital experiences, the growing demand to adopt new technologies and collaborate more easily adds new layers of complexity to event planning. To solve this, we’re integrating immersive capabilities directly into Microsoft Teams, bringing a new powerful event solution that enables teams to create engaging, virtual event experiences using the familiar tools you already know and trust.

Introducing immersive events in Teams, customizable 3D event experiences without complexity

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview availability of immersive events in Teams. Now anyone can host customizable 3D events where people connect from anywhere, interact through avatars, and have natural conversations that feel like being in the same room.

Immersive events in Teams make it easier to create tailored 3D environments and interactions that help people feel present, no matter where they are joining from. And since it is built right in Teams, you can plan, manage, and launch immersive experiences using the tools you already know, like Teams chat to collaborate during and after an event. Just open your Teams calendar, schedule an immersive event, and start designing your space. It’s that simple.

And it’s not just about ease of use. Simpler tools can often lead to faster deployment, reduced training time, and more consistent, reliable experiences, so you can focus on what really matters: your content and your connections. Let’s explore the immersive capabilities coming to Teams.

Familiar set up, elevated experience

Immersive events take what you already know and love about Teams events and offer a new way to host events using dynamic 3D experiences. Built with organizers, presenters, and attendees in mind, it makes setting up, managing, and personalizing immersive events simpler than ever. And with deep Microsoft 365 integration, identity management and enterprise-grade security and privacy is built in, so everything stays in one familiar, trusted place.

Reflect your brand with customization tools

Easily personalize every detail of your 3D space with built-in tools that require no coding or design skills to create richer and more memorable experiences for your audience.

Customize your 3D event space by adding branding and informative content like logos, images, 3D models, videos, texts and more interactive elements.
Utilize pre-designed Microsoft event templates: Choose from multiple ready-to-use 3D environments for formal and informal gatherings, such as all-hands meetings and team celebrations.
With editor, build a branded, structured event experience without the coding skills required. Add interactive elements like texts, images, videos, 3D models, audio and avatar starting positions.

Tools that help Presenters shine

Immersive events in Teams come with powerful tools that help lighten the stress of running an event while giving presenters the confidence to focus on delivering a great experience.

Simple presentation start: With one click turn on spotlight for yourself and teleport attendees to their seats.
Q&A: Bring hand raised attendees to stage for Q&A with one click and return them to seats automatically afterwards.
Find-a-person: Find an attendee and teleport to their event room.
Crowd visualization and reaction: See the audience’s reactions and move quickly between rooms to mingle with attendees, creating a more connected feeling.

Engage naturally

Immersive spaces are designed to help people feel welcome and encourage active involvement, engaging through their avatar. With spatial audio, voices sound closer or further away based on where people are in the room, just like real life. Want to join a conversation? Simply walk your avatar closer to anyone speaking and jump in.

We encourage you to explore immersive events in Teams, now in public preview. We’ve made it easy to get started. Click here to explore immersive events in Teams today.