Zoom officially launched a new immersive video feature designed to help companies create more engaging and collaborative virtual meetings.
While a growing number of fledgling startups have adopted the remote mindset early on, the transition for larger enterprises is fraught with challenges. The larger a company is, the more employees it can count on, even in distant places and time zones. It seems easy to say “meeting”. Despite these obstacles, many large companies (Salesforce , Microsoft , Shopify , VMware , dropbox, Fujitsu and others) have already confirmed the permanent shift to a hybrid or remote work policy.
Better and more adaptable virtual collaboration tools will prove vital to the long-term success of these projects and avoiding the “zoom tired” more and more present.
Immersive reunion: more, together
Zoom first announced its new Immersive View feature ( then called Immersive Scenes ) at its annual Zoomtopia event in October, He did Lo to respond with his own solution for an immersive meeting at the Microsoft Teams Together mode , which had launched a few months earlier. Simply put, video call hosts can use immersive meeting view to organize participants. Everyone, from employees to coordinators, in a single virtual environment. No longer a grid of separate people, therefore, but an environment that includes all the subjects together, with a single background. The embryo of a classroom, or a virtual auditorium.
A step forward in the direction of a future that will see more and more "mixed" systems of meeting and professional interaction virtual and in presence.
The immersive view supports up to 25 participants and they can be placed in any number of environments, including a meeting room, auditorium or classroom, depending on the event. Hosts can manually move people around the screen or let Zoom do it automatically.
Immersive Meeting View is now available in Zoom's desktop client (version 5.6.3 or later) for Windows and MacOS and is enabled by default for all free and individual Pro accounts.
