Zoom is rolling out avideo background feature called Immersive Viewthat could make video calls more engaging.
The feature lets you join a virtual room with friends or colleagues.
Its part of a growing wave of new tools designed to make video meetings feel less like a chore.
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Zooms immersive tech, while emulating in-person connection, may help to reverse that trend, Alexis said.
Rooms With a View
Immersive View lets video participants stay in a single virtual space.
Hosts can choose from one of Zooms immersive virtual scenes and embed video participants within that scene.
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you might also set a custom background.
“Instead, with Immersive View, participants will have the social pressure of being displayed on a panel.
Zoom is not the only one trying to shake up the video chat game.
Theres also theapp, Around, which takes the approach that video calls need to belessimmersive.
Too much realism causes Zoom fatigue and that feeling of having eyes on you and nowhere to hide.
Around uses a floating layer of faces with colorful “anti-fatigue filters.”
Reintroducing Spontaneity
Remember random office interactions?
Thats what some companies are trying to bring back with various online solutions.
