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Microsoft has disbanded its four-month-old industrial meta-universe application team and laid off all 100 employees.

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 14:31:52 11月15日 Update

CTOnews.com, February 10 (Xinhua)-- Microsoft has disbanded its four-month-old Metasverse application team, which aims to help customers use Metasverse in an industrial environment, The Information said, citing people familiar with the matter. All of the team's about 100 employees have been fired, the person familiar with the matter said.

CTOnews.com reported last October that Microsoft had created an industrial metacosmos core team to create software interfaces for control systems behind power plants, industrial robots and transportation networks. The team is mainly made up of an internal group called Project Bonsai.

It is worth mentioning that Microsoft announced last month that it would cut 10,000 jobs, involving a number of departments, accounting for about 4.5% of its workforce.

Satya Satya Nadella, chief executive of Tuyuan Pexels Microsoft, said in a note to employees that customers wanted to "optimize their digital spending and do more with fewer resources" and "be cautious when there is a recession in some parts of the world and in other parts of the world".

Expanded Reading: "the wave of layoffs has swept through the US technology industry, and Microsoft has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs."

"Microsoft denies plans to cut 11000 jobs."

Microsoft sets up an industrial meta-universe team to use VR / AR to empower industrial systems.

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