What is Zoom Immersive View and how does it work?
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(Pocket-lint) – Zoom is rolling out a new background feature. Called Immersive View, Zoom first announced the feature at its Zoomtopia conference in 2020. Now it’s available to all Free and Pro accounts attending meetings and webinars.
Here’s what you need to know, including how to enable it.
What is Zoom Immersive View?
Immersive View is a new kind of virtual background that puts you and other meeting platforms in a realistic-looking place. It can accommodate up to 25 participants. As the meeting host, you can enable Immersive View from the same menu as Speaker View and Gallery View. Then Zoom will automatically place participants in a virtual scene such as a meeting room or auditorium, or the meeting host can upload their own scene.
Hosts can also place attendees and resize attendees.
Remark : if you’re using your own scene, Zoom says it’s best to stick to the file type, aspect ratio, and resolution it recommends for virtual backgrounds.
How to use Zoom Immersive View
The immersive view has certain limitations. For calls with more than 25 people, the remaining participants will be placed in a strip of video thumbnails at the top of the stage. Also, if you’re not using the latest version of Zoom on your desktop or mobile, the background will use the settings before you enabled Immersive View. For example, if your friends are meeting in a meeting room, you’ll see the usual grid of boxes with a black background.
Getting started – customer requirements
Make sure you are running the latest version of the Zoom desktop client:
- Windows version 5.6.3 or higher
- MacOS version 5.6.3 or higher.
Enable Immersive View as a User
To enable Immersive Viewing for your own use:
- Log in to the Zoom web portal.
- In the navigation menu, click Settings.
- On the Meeting tab, under the In Meeting (Advanced) section, find Immersive View.
- Verify that the setting is enabled.
- If the setting is disabled, click the status toggle to enable it.
- If a verification dialog box appears, choose Enable to verify the change.
- If the setting is grayed out, it has been locked at the account level and needs to be changed there.
Remark : Want to enable Immersive View at the account or group level? Check out Zoom’s FAQ guide here.
Start Immersive View as a host
- In a meeting or webinar, in the upper-right corner, click View.
- Click Immersive View.
- Select one of the following options to place participants in the scene:
- Automatically: This option allows you to include as many participants as possible in the scene you select.
- Manually: You can add or remove participants as you wish.
- Select the scene you want to use.
- Click Start to launch Immersive View.
Remark : when used as part of a webinar, the host and panelists will be placed together on the virtual background, while attendees view the stage.
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Zoom offers an explanation of the immersive view here. You can also check out our Zoom tips and tricks guide and some of our favorite Zoom virtual backgrounds.
Written by Maggie Tillman. Edited by Chris Hall.