Zoom is rolling out a newbackgroundfeature.Called Immersive View, Zoom first announced the feature at its Zoomtopia conference in 2020. Now, it’s readily available for 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 type of virtual background that places you and other meeting attendees together in a realistic-looking location. It allows up to 25 participants. As a meeting host, you’re able to enable Immersive View from the same menu where you find Speaker View and Gallery View. Then,Zoomwill automatically place attendees in a virtual scene such as a board room or auditorium, or the meeting host can upload their own scene.
Hosts can also place attendees and resize attendees.
Note:If using your own scene, Zoom says matching the file type, aspect ratio, and resolution it recommends for virtual backgrounds is best.
How to use Zoom Immersive View
Immersive View has some limitations. For calls larger than 25 people, the remaining participants will be placed in a strip of video thumbnails at the top of the scene. Also, for anyone not running the latest version of Zoom on desktop or mobile, the background will use the previous settings before Immersive View was enabled. For example, if your friends are meeting in a board room, you’d see the usual grid of boxes with black backgrounds.
Getting started - client requirements
Make sure you’re running the latest version of the Zoom desktop client:
Enable Immersive View as a user
To enable the Immersive View feature for your own use:
Note:Want to enable Immersive View at the account or group level?See Zoom’s FAQ guide here.
Start Immersive View as the host
Note:When used in a webinar, the host and panelists will be placed together onto the virtual background, while attendees view the scene.
Want to know more?
Zoom hasan explainer here on Immersive View.Also, check out ourZoom tips and tricksguide and some of ourfavourite Zoom virtual backgrounds.
