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To date Zoom has been one of the leading applications or tools when making video calls. In fact, during the confinement we use this technology more than ever in our lives and now, given the current perspectives, we continue to connect, both with our family members and with our co-workers, clients and collaborators through video calls.
But it seems that the owners of Zoom Video Communications, Inc., that is, Zoom, are planning to expand the horizons of the platformAnd it will do so by adding other functionalities beyond video calls. Its experts believe that Zoom is designed to go a little further and there will be news. This is all that Zoom will bring to the service from now on, both for individuals and professionals.
Features beyond video calls
During all this time, Zoom professionals have been working on the development of new and varied functionalities to respond to a wide needs staff. Thus, as Zoom has explained, immersive scenes have been added, for example, which allow the host to set custom background themes for the video calls in which they participate. Layouts can also be created for participants to embed in the scenes themselves. It is expected, for example:
- OnZoom: A platform for creating events (free and paid).
- Zapps: A system for developers to create apps. Zoom also provides its own and third-party apps to integrate real-time into meetings.
- Customizable SDK: Developers will be able to add enhancements to their video applications in Zoom
- End-to-End Encryption: So users can be sure their information won't leak beyond the connection
Zoom for Home,also improves with DTEN ME support, Facebook via Zoom in the Portal app and Zoom Rooms devices . It is also expected to arrive soon for Amazon Echo Show, DTEN onTV, Google Assistant and Yealink A20.
Voice command options have been corrected and synchronization with personal devices has also been improved, so it's now easier and faster to control your Zoom meetings RoomsYou can collaborate seamlessly across mobile, desktop and guest rooms with whiteboards and the Zoom Rooms smart gallery has been introduced. Through this, face-to-face communication is improved between the people who physically participate in the meeting and those who are remote.
Functional enhancements added to Zoom
There are other exciting improvements coming to Zoom Phone, which are alerts to members of the security team and 911, which is the emergency services. This service is integrated with Zoom Digital Signage and Zoom Chat, to serve as a guide for employees and responders. The Teams SMS system and the blocking and detection of spam, which works through Artificial Intelligence, are included, although they are not yet available.
Users who use webinars will see that their experience has also been improved in some of its features.For example, reactions, break rooms, custom lobbies and debrief rooms. In video waiting rooms, the hosts have the power or not to admit a guest, after having seen them there. As if this were not enough, Zoom is capable of activating the Hi-Fi audio system using artificial intelligence.
Zoom Cares, a solidarity project
To contribute to the solution of the COVID-19 crisis, Zoom has launched Zoom Cares, a scholarship that has gone to several schools, with the aim of helping children and families who they have lost the right to education for months. Thus, 1.5 million dollars have been donated for students around the world to connect and start learning again
Currently, Zoom continues to be one of the most used tools for worldwide.Thus, according to data from the platform itself, today 3 billion minutes of meetings are held per year and every day there are 300 million participants in video calls.
