As the other day we indicated Microsoft and Meta seem doomed to face off in metaverse wars. Mark Zuckerberg’s company is looking for staff to deliver endless content and is drawing on Apple and the Microsoft HoloLens team.
The HoloLens team goes to Meta and its metaverse
First of all we are going to talk about Microsoft. The team led by Alex Kipman has about 1,500 people, but their numbers would have been reduced. Approximately, according to The Wall Street Journal, 100 people have left the company. Of those 100 people, 40 would have landed in Meta.
This may not be the best time since this unit has to work on different commercial proposals. What’s more, has suffered delays for the IVAS project with the United States Army, a client of the most important.
According to the WSJ report, Former employees said Microsoft had not hired enough engineers to deal with the pressure IVAS is putting on on the company’s resources. And the new employee exits won’t help either.
But the former Apple employees do not consider that those of Cupertino are in the best situation and Meta has convinced them more. The benefactor of these new hires, Meta, declined to discuss their hiring practices or the hires they are making.
Here we have different positions, from Microsoft they have indicated that the metaverse is an objective and they are clear how to do it. From content creation tools to the potential of Xbox. The fact that Meta is hiring Redmond employees may suggest, to some, that one of the companies values the world of augmented reality more and it is willing to do more to ensure that there is a workforce behind it. If we only look at public information, both companies are committed to augmented reality.