Zoom Mulls New Virtual, IoT Capabilities for Collaboration

What’s next for Zoom? Try the possibility of virtual interaction. Pivoting into a more relevant role now that people are willingly and unwillingly heading back to work, Zoom Video Communications is now exploring new-age technologies to tap the hybrid working model that is set in place to take shape now that the world is two years into the pandemic. And now that people are getting back to the office, the company said it's heading for the India and Saarc markets. Sameer Raje announced plans were afoot to go beyond just using Zoom as a video-calling application to a collaboration platform.
Many will see the changes as the new age technologies will add features that would make it cooler, accessible and more relevant. So, as some workers head back to the office, Zoom’s exploration could branch out into a world of possibilities. Raje said, “It could be avatars, it could be a virtual world, it could be virtual interaction, it could be IoT, or multiple other things,” ET reports. Recently, Zoom took a more modern approach and introduced the avatars feature, which will replace a user’s appearance during a video call with that of a virtual animal that mirrors his or her head movements and facial expressions, much like what iPhone users are used to utilizing when implementing their animal avatars.
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