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Tech T@lk
facebook adds spotify Zoom’s new feature
mini-player within its app ‘immersive View’ makes
meetings fun
ocial media platform companied by ads.
Facebook recently add- The process of launching the
Sed a Spotify mini-player mini-player is fairly straightfor- oom has started roll- make interactions more fun, the
within its app that will now let ward. The first time you try to ing out a new feature scenes for the meeting can be
users stream content on it while use the mini-player, you’ll need Zcalled Immersive View selected by the host.
browsing. According to Mash- to connect your Facebook and that would make meetings a lot Zoom has already provid-
able, the feature is currently Spotify accounts together. If more engaging and collabora- ed a few scenes to help you get
available for both iOS and An- you’re not already logged into tive. As per Mashable, the fea- started but one can also choose
droid users in 27 countries, and Spotify at that point, you’ll have ture was announced by Zoom at to upload their own scene.
support for more markets will to do that first. The mini-player Zoomtopia 2020 and has been These scenes can be anything
be added in the coming months. is persistent so that if you keep rolled out for Windows and ma- from a classroom, a boardroom
The feature, which is an exten- scrolling down, you’ll still hear cOS desktop clients. The com- to a conference auditorium, or
sion of the social sharing op- the music. The countries where pany shared that the Immersive even a cafe. Though any image
tion within the Spotify app, will the capability is presently avail- View feature allows hosts to could be used as an Immersive
ask users whether they want to able are Argentina, Australia, arrange video participants and View background, the company
share the content to “Stories” Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, webinar panelists into a single has said that matching the file
or “News Feed”. Colombia, Costa Rica, Domin- virtual background. It brings type, aspect ratio, and resolu-
If the latter is chosen, users ican Republic, Ecuador, El Sal- all the people in a meeting (up tion recommendations it has for
seeing the shared content will vador, Guatemala, Honduras, to 25 participants) together in virtual backgrounds will deliver
be able to stream content from Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Ma- a fun virtual meeting space. If the best results. It is important
within the app as they use it. laysia, Mexico, New Zealand, there are more than 25 partic- to note that users must have an
Premium users will experience Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, ipants, the additional ones will updated version of Zoom to
full playback directly, while free Peru, South Africa, Thailand, be displayed in a thumbnail be able to see the virtual back-
users can use shuffle mode ac- Uruguay, and the U.S. strip on the top of the scene. To ground.
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