Forget Zoom backgrounds. Microsoft Teams can put you in the identical area as your coworkers

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Together Mode in Teams places you in the identical digital area as your coworkers.

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There’s one Microsoft Teams characteristic which will give the video chat service an edge over your zany Zoom backgrounds. With Together Mode, Teams makes use of AI to digitally place you in a shared background with as much as 49 of your coworkers — so it seems to be and feels extra such as you’re sitting in the identical room with them whereas assembly remotely, just like a VR expertise.

Together Mode helps you give attention to individuals’s faces and physique language, making it simpler to choose up on nonverbal cues that usually get misplaced throughout video conferences. You’ll be capable to select from completely different views, like sitting in an auditorium or at a convention desk. It may also assist reduce down on video assembly fatigue by making video conferences really feel extra like in-person ones, Microsoft stated in a July blog post asserting the characteristic.

Read extra: Microsoft’s Together mode in Teams puts your video chat in a shared virtual space

Together Mode with auditorium view is now usually obtainable. More views will likely be coming sooner or later.

Here’s find out how to use Together Mode, in accordance with a Microsoft demo video:

Make positive you are operating probably the most up to date model of Teams.
Start a name in Teams.
Click the three dots on the toolbar on the high left of the display.
Click Together Mode.

The app will then digitally transport you and your coworkers right into a digital auditorium collectively.

Read extra: 10 free Zoom alternative apps for video chats

With many individuals nonetheless working and socializing from house in the course of the pandemic, video chat companies like Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, FaceTime and Facebook Messenger Rooms have seen large will increase in customers. While Zoom took an early lead, including millions of daily meeting participants, security issues led some individuals to maneuver to different platforms.

Along with Together Mode, Teams rolled out quite a lot of different updates, together with a hand-raising and emoji-creating software, whiteboard help, Cortana integration and transcriptions of conferences.

For extra, try how Teams compares to Zoom, and how to customize your Teams background.