[Weekly Podcast] MS Pyo MR platform, Z Holdings launched

Microsoft announced Microsoft Mesh, a multi-reality platform, during its developer annual meeting, Microsoft Ignite.

Microsoft Mesh is a multi-reality platform powered by Microsoft Azure. It provides applications such as games that share the world with multiplayer, remote work where remote users gather in a multi-reality room to collaborate with each other, telemedicine and events, and education and research. Features such as collaboration with real-time synchronization with the state using holoportation appearing in the other party’s space like a semi-transparent hologram, support for multi-devices that can participate with MR or VR headsets, PCs or smartphones, Azure Cloud-based session management and user management, etc. I take it as. Microsoft is also planning integration with Teams or Dynamics 365, a teleconferencing service.

Next, Z Holdings Co., Ltd. and Line Co., Ltd. announced that they had completed management integration on March 1. The two companies signed a basic agreement on management integration in November 2019, a management integration agreement in December, and a basic business alliance agreement in August 2020. Accordingly, the two companies announced the completion of the management integration on March 1, as the start of the stock exchange effect according to the stock exchange agreement signed by Z Holdings and the line successor company.

Z Holdings is Japan’s largest Internet service company with 23,000 employees and more than 200 services. It has over 300 million users and over 15 million clients in Japan. Z Holdings is planning to continue pursuing Yahoo Japan and LINE’s core business areas such as search, portal, advertisement, and messenger. It is a plan to create synergy effects by defining four areas of commerce, local/non-local, fintech, and public as new focused projects, and combining data and AI technology. To this end, we are setting a goal to achieve KRW 2.12 trillion in sales and KRW 2.4 trillion in operating profit by 2023 by investing KRW 5.3 trillion over the next five years.

The National Security Council on Artificial Intelligence, chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has released a comprehensive final report recommending a roadmap for gaining a US edge in AI. In the report, the National Security Council points out that the US AI development and government-organized AI response are slowing.

The National Security Council told President Joe Biden to more than double its AI research and development spending to $32 billion annually by 2026, establish a new organization to manage broader AI policies, ease restrictions on migration of talented AI experts, and digital technology for civil servants. They proposed the establishment of educational institutions for training purposes and the active introduction of new technologies to US intelligence agencies.

Meanwhile, in November 2020, the EU adopted a resolution on a single sustainable market. The resolution also includes a provision for the right to repair, and in the EU, consumer electronics manufacturers that sell products are obligated to accept repairs for 10 years.

As a result, consumer electronics manufacturers selling products in the EU have been obligated to file a 10-year repair. Experts also welcomed the provision of the right to repair, saying that the EU’s demand for consumer electronics manufacturers is in the right direction and is a big step.

This is the last news. It has been revealed that E3 2021, the world’s largest gaming event scheduled to be held on June 15, 2021, has ceased. This fact was revealed in a resource for the Board of Directors of the City of Los Angeles Convention and Tourism Development Council, which is the venue. As the Corona 19 enters 2021, the organizers have also indicated their plan to hold the E3 2021 online event in February 2021. It is not known whether the local event will be held or will be discontinued, but this information indicates that it has already been canceled. Thank you.