Zoom takes on Microsoft Teams with a killer Together Mode rival

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Zoom takes on Microsoft Teams with a killer Together Mode rival

(Image credit: Zoom)

Zoom is launching Immersive View, a new feature for the pop teleconferencing platform that lets users assemble up to 25 meeting participants into one shared virtual background.

It'southward a fun new feature for Zoom that's a clear response to Microsoft Teams' Together Mode, a very like feature that debuted last summer. Together Mode immune Teams users to automatically adapt upwardly to 49 coming together participants in one shared virtual auditorium.

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Despite existence plagued past security issues, Zoom emerged equally the leading virtual meeting app during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Others, like Microsoft with Teams and Google with its virtual meeting offer, have since struck back at Zoom, then it's interesting to see how the company plays catch-upwardly to features introduced by the competition.

Zoom initially pitched Immersive View terminal October, a few months afterward Together Mode launched, and now that it's live, we can run into that it works in roughly the aforementioned way. Free and individual Zoom users — at least, those using Zoom 5.half-dozen.3 or later — should now run into the option to enable Immersive View in the top-right corner of their Zoom clients during a meeting.

Enabling Immersive View will give yous the option to manually or automatically accommodate up to 25 meeting participants in a single shared virtual background, though there are some backgrounds that back up fewer people. If there are more participants than there are slots in the virtual background, the balance volition bear witness upwards in a thin strip of thumbnail-sized videos along the height of the screen.

(Prototype credit: Microsoft)

Intriguingly, hosts have the ability to create their ain virtual backgrounds or fifty-fifty apply their own video as a virtual background; they can besides move participants' video feeds effectually the virtual background or resize them, affording them some extra control to make things look natural (or just goof around).

This comes just days subsequently Zoom got a agglomeration of killer upgrades in a big patch, including expanded emoji back up for reactions and a bunch of updates to make Zoom easier and more intuitive to use on mobile devices.

If you're planning to hop back into Zoom to try out the new features and could use a quick refresher on the basics, check out our guides on how to set a Zoom meeting and how to change your Zoom background. Your personal Zoom groundwork can still bear witness upwards in some Immersive View setups, so if you demand something fresh check out our list of gratuitous Zoom backgrounds.

Alex Wawro is a lifelong tech and games enthusiast with more than a decade of experience covering both for outlets like Game Developer, Black Hat, and PC World magazine. He currently serves every bit a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering all things computing, from laptops and desktops to keyboards and mice.

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