WhatsApp is rolling out a brand new characteristic for its customers. The Meta-owned social media platform now permits you to share your display throughout video calls. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced this characteristic by posts on his Fb and Instagram profiles. This addition places Meta one step ahead in its plan to compete with conventional video-conferencing platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Groups, Google Meet, and Skype. This characteristic has been obtainable to Android beta testers for a number of weeks, however will now progressively be accessible to all customers worldwide.
Within the picture shared by Zuckerberg, the interface of the brand new WhatsApp display sharing characteristic seems to be just like that of Google Meet or Zoom. The shared display takes up a lot of the display’s actual property, whereas the video name members are seen in small rectangular tiles on the correct facet of the display. You’ll be able to share the display by urgent the arrow icon which signifies the ‘share’ possibility.
Alongside this characteristic, the Meta-owned social community platform additionally launched Panorama mode in video calls along with the Portrait mode. This makes display sharing simpler because it makes texts and graphics extra legible on smartphones, which is the preferred machine that WhatsApp is used on.
Meta mentioned that they’ve began rolling out the options on iOS, Android and Home windows gadgets, so if you do not have rapid entry to the characteristic, it is going to be obtainable quickly, because the firm is rolling it out in a phased method.
WhatsApp additionally not too long ago launched brief video message sharing on the platform. The characteristic is accessible by tapping the mic icon, which is used to ship voice messages. With a single faucet, it modifications to a video digital camera icon and by urgent that, customers can ship video messages of as much as 60 seconds. It seems in a round method on the chat.