Zoom launches Immersive view feature that brings participants in a virtual room

American tech company Zoom shot to fame when nations across the globe went in to lockdowns and people were forced to work remotely. Now the company has officially launched a new feature known as the immersive video feature that will help the businesses to create virtual meetings that will be more engaging and collaborative. It is true that a number of companies have allowed its employees to work remotely. But big entities that brings together a number of people often face a challenge. There are thousands of people of the company who are spread across the globe in different time zones.

Despite such hurdles some of the big giants like Fujitsu, Shopify, Microsoft and Dropbox have confirmed that they will be permanently shifting to remote or a hybrid working policy. An improved adaptive virtual collaboration tools will help such organizations run themselves successfully. The Immersive View was announced by Zoom in the month of October, 2020 during the annual Zoomtopia event and it had then given an answer to the technology which is similar to Together Mode by Microsoft , which launched a few months back.

The hosts of the video calls can make use of the Immersive View and arrange the participants in a single virtual environment. This is a better option than the regular grid like format where the participant is seen with their personal backgrounds. The new feature can support up to 25 participants and they can be placed in the environments like an auditorium or a boardroom or a classroom as per the event. The hosts will be able to manually move around the participants in the virtual room or Zoom would do it automatically.

For now the feature is available on the desktop client of Zoom version 5.6.3 or higher for MacOS or Windows that is activated by default for all the individual Pro and free accounts. It will now be more interesting for the meetings and the people will no need to worry about their backgrounds while working remotely.

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