US media: The competition for talent in the meta-universe has heated up, and the Microsoft AR team has lost nearly 100 employees and many people have switched to Meta

The Wall Street Journal reported on January 11 that microsoft augmented reality (AR) teams have lost about 100 employees in the past year, many of whom have switched to Meta Platforms as the competition for talent with the skills to build metacosms heats up.

Former Microsoft employees say competitors have been scrambling for people with experience developing Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headsets, sometimes offering salaries that are twice as high as the money their original employers gave. According to them, Microsoft's augmented reality team has about 1,500 employees.

LinkedIn of more than 70 former employees who worked on the HoloLens team show that they have left Microsoft in the past year, and more than 40 of them have joined Meta, which is vigorously developing alternative reality technologies.

Among the departing employees reportedly were some of the team's longtime leaders. For example, Charlie Han, who collects customer feedback for HoloLens, left Microsoft last summer to join Meta. Josh Miller, who worked on Microsoft's show team, became Meta's show director in recent months.