Vesa Nopanen – My Metaverse Day
Mr. Metaverse welcomes you to my Metaverse day to explore the Future Work.
It is a very exciting week ahead for me. As I am writing this blog post I am sitting on a train to the airport of Helsinki-Vantaa (and finalized the post at Heathrow airport in UK) where I will depart for a packed tour of exciting events and speaking. On Monday 10th I will be … Continue reading Of the Metaverse Presence and Holoportation
I am writing this article during Microsoft Finland Modern Work and Security Roadshow / Tour. It has been some time since something like this happened in Finland and I am honored to be part of event speakers during this tour, that took me around Finland in a train. The good thing about train travel is … Continue reading Event season and worklife tech updates with new iPhone and Surface Laptop Studio
Metaverse One, the Community Metaverse Conference 2022, was live at 7th of September. As one of the organizers of the event I think it is time to share some information how I felt the event went. In a very short summary: we are extremely happy for the reception and to the event. This was the … Continue reading Big Industry and a retro-glance at the Metaverse One
When we usually talk about the Metaverse it is easy to limit ourselves to think only meetings, collaboration, virtual realities, NFTs, Blockchains and so on. We can think about smart spaces – that could be in a form of Connected Spaces of which I wrote earlier - and Industrial Metaverse with Field Workers. Thinking the … Continue reading Metaverse City – Smart City and Place
I have been recently testing several Jabra earbuds, so I am glad that - thanks to Logitech - I was able to give a test run for Logitech Zone True Wireless buds as well. Initially these look a lot bigger than Jabra Elite 7 series, but to my surprise there wasn't as much size difference … Continue reading Logitech Zone True Wireless – review and experiences
A while back I wrote about The Perfect Field Worker Day in this blog. In that post I connected several technologies to create the perfect day for maintenance worker. One of technologies highlighted there was Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides, which can be used to train field workers on new tasks - and the tech can … Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides – on the job guidance with Mixed Reality
Dynamics 365 solutions have been on the first wave of creating metaverse solutions to the real life applications, especially when thinking manufacturing industry, maintenance, process automation, retail and field workers. They have also had a solution for bringing your space information to the digital world to better understand how people are moving in that space … Continue reading Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces connects physical spaces to the metaverse
I welcome all my readers to join us at the Metaverse One. As I am one of main organizers for the event I of course want to make you aware about what's available for you all. Metaverse One is community driven - there isn't any selling invovled if you register. It is also 100% free … Continue reading Join Metaverse One – a Microsoft Metaverse community event on September 7th 2022
Welcome to my Metaverse day! Today I will take you to a journey when I vision how Metaverse will be affecting our tourism and customer experience in the future. In some cases this future is already here but not that many businesses are thinking about how they will be using the Metaverse this way. Yet. … Continue reading A Metaverse customer experience
Microsoft Whiteboard has been updated again! For us who use that more often than other whiteboard apps these are excellent news. We are still missing promised features like locking the view, but it looks really good how Microsoft Whiteboard is improving. So let's take a look! Share a selected Microsoft Whiteboard to the meetingEraser : … Continue reading Share selected Microsoft Whiteboard to Teams meeting and other updates
Welcome back to the my Metaverse day! This time I am going to walk you through to a day in modern Field Workers life and how Metaverse tech, that includes mixed reality and other devices, can make their day a perfect one. We can call our fictional field worker Marilyn in this example and follow … Continue reading A perfect Field Worker day
Recently I came across Synthesia tool, which is a very Metaverse Era -way to create presentations and videos with text-to-speech. I have had only chance to use the public demo version so far, but this definitely looks something I could be testing out later in the autumn for real. In short: you use text to … Continue reading Synthesia – Metaverse era video creation tool
A year ago I upgraded my home office desktop with new Logitech MS Keys and MX Master 3 mouse. I have been a so called happy used with them since. I have noticed I rather take the Logitech MX Master 3 with me to travels (despite the size) than Surface Precision mouse. MX Master 3 … Continue reading Logitech MX Keys Business Mini Combo – Review
It is quite well-known that most of laptop built-in web cameras are not very high quality devices. To counter that issue it is very useful to have a separate webcam you can use to have a better image quality. And depending on the webcam you can also get a better microphones with it. Thanks to … Continue reading Logitech C925e business webcam
I got an another great opportunity to test out new Jabra Elite 7 -series earbuds: Jabra Elite 7 Active and Jabra Elite 7 Pro. My previous check on Jabra's were 85t buds. On longer term I noticed that they didn't fit my ears that well, no matter which ear piece size I tried. During the … Continue reading Jabra Elite 7 Active & Elite 7 Pro – my experiences
It is always great to do some testing and review on new devices. Thanks to Logitech Nordics I got Logitech Zone Wired Earbuds for testing. Those who me, also know that I am not a fan of wired headsets. The wire seems to be always on the way and causes noise to the audio. Read … Continue reading Logitech Zone Wired Earbuds
Loop Components finally made their way to Web Outlook. This means you can create and use Loops now in Microsoft Outlook and Teams. Sharing is possible for inside your organization only at this moment. On the bonus there is a new Q&A component you can use to collect Q&A questions & answers easier. Let's take … Continue reading How to use Loop Components in Outlook and Teams.
Tuesday evening I got the information I was renewed as MVP for my 4rd year. I am extremely happy and very honored about this! Being a Microsoft MVP has been great experience, because the community rocks! Sharing knowledge and insights, having fun and making new friends, meeting people in person at events and impacting & … Continue reading 4th MVP award 🥰 (and how to set your Quiet time/DnD in Teams / Office 365 for vacation!)
Thanks to a colleague of mine I took a look at Mojo Vision. I was surprised that this had totally been hidden from my radar so far. In short: Mojo Vision is a contact lens with Extended / Augmented Reality capabilities. Just a few days ago Mojo published an article about their CEO testing out … Continue reading Mojo Vision – XR Contact Lenses
Microsoft Mesh, the platform for Metaverse, is going to be powering Mesh for Teams. Mesh itself won't be a new product in the catalogue, but instead it will be powering different applications that allows us to enter virtual or extended worlds. If you have used HoloLens 2 Mesh application you can see Microsoft Mesh working … Continue reading Microsoft Mesh for Teams – what we know and expect?
Delayed Send is a free Microsoft Teams application that can be used to deliver Teams messages at specific time in the future. The app is created by Appfluence inc. If you need the Delayed Send today and you don't want to create Power Platform action (it is not difficult!) for it then you want to … Continue reading Microsoft Teams app: Delayed Send
End of June is always interesting times with Microsoft Products. Ending of their fiscal year means that a lot of KPIs and objectives need to be reached and closed. That is why there are usually so many roadmap items scheduled for June and July. In addition Microsoft Inspire event happens around mid-July, which means Microsoft … Continue reading Microsoft Teams – what to expect during summer 2022?
Jabra PanaCast 20 is the personal PanaCast for video conferencing. Unlike it's biger siblings this one is agile and small enough so you can take it with you when leaving the (home) office. Thanks to Jabra, I was able to put this camera to a test run. First, some tech specs 4K video ( 13 … Continue reading Jabra PanaCast 20 review
In this post you can read my insights about Metaverse Standards Forum and why Amazon Proteus is a big thing. Metaverse Standards ForumIndustrial Metaverse automation achievements: Amazon ProteusHave a great Midsummer 2022! Metaverse Standards Forum Metaverse standards forum published good news this week. The standardization of Metaverse is stepping forward as numerous players join the … Continue reading Metaverse interoperatibility takes a step forward
If you haven't attended Microsoft Envision UK recently you might have this great video how you can utilize HoloLens 2 for Holoportation, Digital Twins and with more photorealistic avatas (well, at least the top portrait of them) in an easy way. In the video Alex Karim, Metaverse Lead at Microsoft UK, discusses and demos with … Continue reading Digital Twins and Holoportation with HoloLens 2
There has been quite a lot of chatter about NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) in the Metaverse context. How crypto + NFT democratizes trade and allows us to own digital art, avatar decors and land in the Metaverse. You could be buying land in the Decentraland buy Gucci clothing for your Roblox avatars and set up a … Continue reading Metaverse trade: buy a NFT, get also the physical item
Both Apple and Qualcomm has been recently in the news about their Mixed Reality headsets / glasses. These will certainly bring interesting features to the market and have the chance to allowing more people to be aware about the metaverse - and enter it. Apple has been quite good on making their products look interesting … Continue reading Some thoughts about upcoming Apple and Qualcomm headsets
This week takes me to Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom to speak in and attend at Scottish Summit 2022. Looking at the list of speakers and schedule there are a big number of great content and a reunion with plenty of community friends. I will present my session on Saturday 11th of June at 11am GMT … Continue reading Scottish Summit 2022 – see you there!
This time I didn't attend or follow Microsoft Build just online, but instead I was speaking at the Microsoft Build Spotlight UK live on stage at Microsoft UK headquarters at Reading. I had the pleasure to spend time with my good friend Chris Hoard and meet several UK Tech Community friends like Chirag Patel, Chris … Continue reading Microsoft Build 2022 Spotlight at Microsoft UK
Unlike it looked yesterday, we got more information about Mesh for Teams and the Metaverse during Into Focus : Preparing for Metaverse session Tuesday evening. I was happy to be part of virtual MVP audience of that session too! There were some very interesting pieces of information released during Satya Nadella's keynote speak combined with … Continue reading Microsoft Build In Focus: Mesh for Teams Metaverse
Welcome to read my recap blog post of what's been announced at Microsoft Build 2022! This post focuses on Microsoft Teams and Metaverse news. I was hoping to see more news about Mesh for Teams, but apart from "more news/information in upcoming monts" and some very interesting videos & pictures we were not shared much … Continue reading Microsoft Build 2022 recap on Microsoft Teams, Mesh for Teams and Microsoft Metaverse
Metaverse is not just about Microsoft Metaverse. There are several big and numerous smaller players heading into the Metaverse. While I do tend to focus on Microsoft Metaverse because it plays at the enterprise level. These two recent news in the post subject really got my attention as well as Ready Player Me, so I … Continue reading Meta Project Cambria, Google Smart Glasses and Ready Player Me
I am very happy to announce that I am returning to speak at Microsoft Build 2022! This time I will be speaking in-person at Microsoft UK regional event - all sessions are also streamed online so you can attend Microsoft Build from anywhere. As before, Microsoft Build 2022 is free to attend so it is … Continue reading Meet you in-person and digitally at Microsoft Build 2022!
The question often asked is: what makes Metaverse such a big game changer and what else can you do with it than just virtual reality meetings? We don't even know all use cases yet, because with Metaverse only imagination is the limit. I have touched here on my blog various uses besides meetings: trainings/learning and … Continue reading Metaverse use cases for businesses
While there isn't any new information about Mesh for Teams it is good to already think why and when you would be using immersive meeting instead of 2D (traditional / normal) Teams meeting. The end of H1 / 2022 is advancing rapidly and in Microsoft Ignite 2021 they stated that Mesh for Teams preview would … Continue reading Why Metaverse in Teams is going to make a difference
Vesa Nopanen - My Metaverse Day 