Immersive Scenes, reactions and other news

The event was staged in recent days for obvious reasons in an exclusively virtual form Zoomtopia 2020 he saw Zoom present the news for the service, new features created on the basis of feedback collected from users and on some occasions inspired by what has already been successfully implemented by the competition.

Zoom: the news from Zoomtopia 2020

This is the case with what has been baptized Immersive Scenes, quite similar to the Together Mode of Microsoft Teams: it is basically a system that, instead of showing on the screen all the users who participate in a meeting in separate boxes, outlines their faces and places them next to each other on a preset background. A rather explanatory example below with a class of pupils linked from home to the distance learning (or integrated digital teaching).

Then there are the reactions, a typically social mode of interaction that has now also infected productivity solutions.

Still, who arranges a meeting on Zoom can now see the video broadcast by whoever is in waiting room pending authorization to join the group.

To this are added two features that leverage theartificial intelligence: the first is for the automatic activation of High-Fidelity Music Mode announced last month (especially useful for those who do or follow music lessons remotely), the other has instead been called Recording Highlights and takes care of identifying the most important passages of a meeting by highlighting them once the recording is loaded on cloud.

Finally, let us remember that it is taking off the rollout of the long-awaited end-to-end encryption loudly demanded by users and finally ready for implementation on the platform.

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