The new immersive view has arrived on Zoom: everyone in the same screen, as if it were a real meeting room.
The famous video conferencing app Zoom Meetings finally makes available a feature announced several months ago but then disappeared into thin air: it is "Immersive View" and it is a new way of viewing meeting participants.
Although with a maximum limit of 25 participants, and with the obvious limitations arising from the size and resolution of the screen, Immersive View allows the host of the video call to arrange at will all participants in a single screen, with virtual background. In this way, everyone will see everyone, within the same frame. Nata per favorire la concentrazione degli ospiti ed evitare fastidiosi spostamenti delle finestre dei partecipanti, questa funzione potrà anche essere usata per scopi pubblicitari e, perché no, per aumentare l’affiatamento della squadra di lavoro in un periodo in cui lavorare da remoto è la nuova normalità.
Zoom Immersive View: come funziona
Immersive View è già disponibile per tutti, su Windows e MacOS, sia per i profili Free che per i Pro in abbonamento. Affinché tutti i partecipanti vedano la riunione in Immersive View, però, è necessario che abbiano scaricato e istallato la versione 5.6.3 o superiore del client di Zoom, altrimenti continueranno a vedere la vecchia interfaccia anche quando l’host ha attivato la Immersive View.
L’host, oltre ad attivare questo tipo di visualizzazione, può scegliere anche la “location virtuale della riunione“: sala riunioni, auditorium o classe. Then it can choose where to place each participant in the screen, also choosing the size of each figure, which will be automatically contoured by the app.
What's the point of Immersive View
It's clear that a host who chooses to launch a business video call with Immersive View is sending a clear message to his guests: act as if you were in the company. Even more so if Zoom is used for distance learning, and the guests are students.
Although it is not possible to record the meeting if Immersive View is active, it is also possible to use this feature for marketing purposes: a company that wants to present itself to the public, customers or the press in a polished and uniform way will find this type of visualization very effective.