Zoom Avatars feature has arrived! Meetings will be fun

Zoom, one of the first applications that comes to mind for virtual meetings, brings its own Avatars. Especially during the pandemic period, the increase in working at home and distance education increased the interest in the platform. Virtual meetings often take place at home.

People attending from home do not want to turn on the camera and be seen in the meeting. But this gets in the way of the sense of reality. Zoom also brought its own Avatars to prevent this. So, how will Zoom Avatars work and what are the details? Let’s take a look at the details of the news together.

Zoom Avatars based on farm animals

Zoom’s Avatars are based only on the face, as in social media filters. The background will disappear completely and the person’s face will be selected. to the Avatar of the farm animal will turn into. Currently only 11 pieces Avatars with farm animals are expected to increase in the future.

Avatars will follow and mimic facial expressions using the camera. The company stated that this feature recognizes the sensory organs on the face in order to have a perception of reality. In addition, Zoom announced whether they are saving any data for facial recognition.

How to use Zoom Avatars?

In order to use Avatars, Zoom’s new feature, it is necessary to update the application first. To use it after updating, you can follow these steps:

• Zoom Preferences > Background & Effects > Settings > Avatar selection

This setting applies to all meetings, if you want to select Avatar for a single meeting after attending the meeting you can follow these steps:

• Select Virtual Background > Avatar selection

Avatars are only available on iOS devices for now, and are expected to come to Android shortly.

What do you, our readers, think about this issue? How do you think Avatars, the new extension of Zoom, and will you use it? You can comment or express your thoughts on the SDN Forum.