Save the date for Metaverse One 2023: September 20th 2023!
Metaverse One is the first 100% free, 100% community driven online conference dedicated to the Microsoft Metaverse, Microsoft Mesh, Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, MR technologies, extensibility options, the Teams Platform and also welcomes other Metaverse Platforms. It aims to bring together exceptional technical talent and thought leadership to democratize Metaverse and AI&nbsp;knowledge, encourage participation in the community and give those who are struggling financially an opportunity to experience a first class conference.
Metaverse One has 4 online rooms that has sessions around the Metaverse, AI, Microsoft Mesh, Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and other themes.
We are also welcoming sessions on and about other platforms such as Meta, Spatial and other consumer / event Metaverses. With the partnership between Meta and Microsoft sharing insights and knowledge about that is also important.
Sessions can range from technical ones to end users. From champions and adoption of new ways of working to the responsible &amp; ethical use of the Metaverse. From getting ready to the new future to sharing experiences.
We welcome your support for the Metaverse One 2023 and appreciate you sharing the word about the event as Microsoft Tech Community Rocks!

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Opening begins at 8am CEST.&nbsp; You can <a href="https://metaverseone2023.sessionize.com/schedule" target="_blank">view schedule directly via this link</a>.

Keynote Speakers📢 Jeff Teper, MicrosoftPresident - Microsoft Collaborative Apps and Platforms📢 Karuana Gatimu, MicrosoftPrincipal Manager, Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft Teams Engineering📢 Pouneh Kaufman, MicrosoftGPM, Collaborative Apps Platform | Mesh | Metaverse | AR/VR/MR &nbsp;See full speaker and session list at&nbsp;<a href="https://metaverseone2023.sessionize.com/schedule" target="_blank">https://metaverseone2023.sessionize.com/schedule</a>

Metaverse One 2023

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With mixed reality it is possible to combine elements of the real world with virtual ones, so that we can transform all those processes in which a spatial component is involved, such as measuring spaces or volumetric interpretations of 2D / 3D figures. In this session we will see how it is possible to develop this type of applications with a Low Code tool such as Power Apps, speeding up development times and facilitating their creation by any type of user.

Power Apps and Mixed Reality: A powerful combination!

The metaverse has the potential to revolutionize education by providing immersive learning experiences that enable educators and trainers to provide more realistic learning scenarios. In this session, we’ll explore the opportunities that the metaverse is bringing to the world of education, learning, and development. We’ll also be looking at tools and techniques that educators, trainers, and L&D professionals can introduce today to meet their learners in the metaverse across all types of learning scenarios, not just the in the obvious hands-on skills.

Revolutionizing Education and Training with Metaverse-Style Learning

Mixed reality is now a consolidated reality, which frees users from the limits of the screen, offering intuitive interactions with data in the physical space that we share with customers and our colleagues, through the use of holograms. 
In this session, we will explore three mixed reality business applications according to Microsoft together:
- Dynamics 365 Remote Assist: Allows maintenance technicians to collaborate by working together from different locations.
- Dynamics 365 Guides: Helps operators learn a new task or job by providing holographic instructions when and where they are needed, contextually to real objects.
- Mixed Reality in Power Apps: Add mixed reality controls to your canvas apps to interact with the real world in 3D.

Mixed reality is now reality! - Mixed Reality scenarios with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform

Since Power Apps integrated the Mixed Reality features and components, the real use cases increased every month. In this session we will show how to built from scratch a Canvas Apps connected to our Sales module to improve the sales (demo of our products) and installation (measures taking) experience for our organisation. This is a perfect example of how Power Platform can easily keep extending our business solutions and increase the quality of our selling processes. You will see a live demo of a mobile app in remote!

Mixed Reality and Power Platform: improving the sales experience

Join Luke and Zoe a year after they prepared to enter the Metaverse with Mesh for Teams at the inaugural Metaverse One.

A tremendous amount has moved on in the past year in the metaverse space for Microsoft with Avatars now being available in Microsoft Teams and the Mesh for Teams preview drawing closer each day!

After attending this session, you will understand at a high-level:

What Mesh for Microsoft Teams is, what new opportunities it introduces and what business benefits it can bring?
What has changed in the past year in Mesh for Teams?
A live demo of Mesh for Teams using Avatars
A live demo of Mesh for Teams (if available)
How you can better prepare your organization for the metaverse and Mesh for Microsoft Teams

Technologies in this session will be
 
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Mesh

Dive back into the Metaverse Mesh for Teams

In this session, we will introduce our metaverse technology developed by Futuristic Interactive Technologies, a research group at Turku University of Applied Sciences. This technology is designed specifically for education institutions and the technology industry to provide immersive collaborative certified training solutions. We have defined metaverse as a technology that enables social communication, hands on training and real-life integration. To date, our technology has been successfully used in medical education between four European universities. We have also created a collaborative hands on training environment for harbour workers, where not only personal professional competences  can be trained, but also professional competences that require collaborative tasks to be completed utilizing authentic controllers. Industrial metaverse also requires IoT integration to enable real-life integration. During the session, we will demonstrate 1) medical education, 2) collaboration in harbour environment, and 3) a collaborative remote controlled robot system.

Next Generation Training Solutions in Collaborative Industrial Metaverse

Overview of where we are with AI integration in the Power Platform, whats new and what's already available. 

AI in the Power Platform

Mixed Reality features are available on the web through the use of WebXR. Experience virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) content in a compatible WebXR-enabled browser. Attend this session and leverage the power of JavaScript and web skills to create more engaging Mixed Reality experiences. We will look at popular open-source AR/VR JavaScript libraries available to get started.

Mixed Reality for JavaScript developers

ChatGPT, GPT-4, and similar large models are receiving a high amount of attention across industries. Almost weekly new ways to use those models are unveiled and integration in different products and services announced.

This ranges from generating creative text, doing translations, correcting grammar, answering questions, classifying content, and in some cases even tools to transform natural language into code in a variety of development languages. It is not a question if those models will be used, but how much they will change the way we work. They are already integrated in many Microsoft offerings including M365 and Power Platform.

We will start with describing for non-scientist audiences how those models were built.

We then move on to discuss a few of the most relevant models with a focus of showcasing what you can use them for. 

Since this field is innovating frequently, the precise models being featured are subject to change but will at least have the capabilities of OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4 to the degree it is available.

OpenAI Codex and GitHub CoPilot will also be demonstrated with their ability to assist in writing code.

This session will feature a high number of demos.

Finally, the session will cover the issue of some of the risks such as biases that are present in those models.

After this session you will have a better understanding about Large Language Models and their hands-on application beyond what major vendors will tell you.

ChatGPT, GPT-4 and friends, large AI models that will change our life

Microsoft Mesh (currently in Private Preview) is an enterprise-grade platform that delivers users a sense of co-presence and shared experiences in mixed reality applications that are viewable from 2D and 3D endpoints. Enable rich collaboration, meetings, and events in immersive spaces with avatars, spatial audio, interaction and physics tools, event management capabilities, and more.
In this session, we demonstrate how to build shared immersive environments and experiences in Mesh. We also outline common use cases and share what roles, skills and tools can help you build successful experiences. 

Building Shared Immersive Experiences with Microsoft Mesh

Purposeful placemaking is just as important in digital spaces as physical spaces.  We explore how human centered experience design can benefit metaverse spaces and how the process can create stakeholder engagement in the environment.  