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Google allows Donald Trump’s app Microsoft collaborates with Meta to

Truth Social on Play Store deliver immersive experiences in VR

ormer President Donald The company added that Truth icrosoft has partnered with “Now, you can connect, share
Trump’s social media app Social has agreed to enforce the Meta in an effort to per- and collaborate as though you are
FTruth Social is now available moderation measures on user-gen- Msuade businesses to oper- together in person,” Nadella added.
for download on the Google Play erated content that Google requires. ate in virtual settings. During Meta’s On the Windows end, Nadella said
Store, as per The Verge. The outlet Previously, after issuing a ban follow- Connect conference this morning, that Microsoft 365 will come to Quest
has shared that Truth Social, which ing the Capitol riots, Google had also Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a way that lets users interact with
was banned by Google over “insuffi- reinstated Parler, a similarly focused that Microsoft teams will integrate content from productivity apps like
cient” content moderation policies, app. Apart from policy violations with Quest devices and that Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
offers a Twitter-like social experience that initially prevented its app launch will provide a way to stream Windows “You [will] have a new way to
and markets itself as a platform that on Android, the Trump Media and apps to Meta’s headsets, TechCrunch securely stream the entire Windows
“encourages an open, free, and hon- Technology Group (TMTG) owned reported. Nadella also revealed that experience, including all the person-
est global conversation.” Truth Social has also been facing fi- Microsoft’s streaming game service, alized app content settings to your
Before attempting to launch nancial issues related to its repeated- Xbox Cloud Gaming, will arrive on VR device with the full power [of
on the Google Play Store, Trump’s ly delayed SPAC, as per The Verge. Quest devices sometime within the Windows,]” Nadella said. “We’ve
social media app first launched on coming months. “We’re bringing the been thinking about how to bring
the Apple App Store in February. The outlet reported that Digi- Microsoft Teams immersive meeting the power of Microsoft 365 and Win-
According to The Verge, in a state- tal World Acquisition Corp, the experience to Meta Quest in order to dows 365 to 3D spaces to really help
ment, Google said that apps on the give people new ways to connect with drive productivity and enable you to
Google Play Store are permitted as shell company set to merge each other,” Nadella said, noting that create, communicate and collabo-
long as they “comply with our devel- with TMTG and take it public, custom avatars will eventually come to rate in completely new ways.” As for
oper guidelines. This includes the delayed the process and has the experience. Horizon Workrooms, Xbox Cloud Gaming, on the Quest,
requirement to effectively moderate Meta’s VR space for collaboration, it’ll stream games to a 2D VR screen,
user-generated content and remove now scheduled its shareholder will connect with Teams, he added supporting existing Xbox controllers.
objectionable posts such as those vote on November 3. -- allowing people to join a Teams But Nadella hinted that additional
that incite violence.” meeting directly from Workrooms. features might arrive down the line.

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