Messenger Rooms: Facebook Rolls Out Its New Video Calling Application

Update: 2020-05-16 18:11 IST
Facebook Rolls Out Its New Video Calling Application

The restriction on the Zoom video calling application has opened the opportunity to other tech companies to unveil their own video calling apps amidst the Covid-19 lockdown.

We have already seen Google company coming up with Google Meet application which is specially designed for the video calling in this lockdown period. Well, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has also doubled the number of participants for a video call.

But most of them still feel that WhatsApp is only a chat medium and works for personal conversations rather than official ones. This made Facebook come up with another high-end video calling application 'Messenger Rooms'.

First, let us see how to connect with the Messenger Room and create a room for your conversation.

Step 1: Open the Messenger app…

Step 2:Then, you need to click on the 'People tab' at the bottom right of the screen.

Step 3:Next, click on the'Create a Room' option and select the people you want to join.

Step 4:Finally, to share a room with people who don't have a Facebook account, you needs to share the link with them.

We Hans India have jotted down the features of Messenger Rooms for our readers… Have a look!

• Allows 50 people to go on a video call at a time.

• There is no time limit for the video call.

• Coming to privacy issues, they are secured as the Messenger Rooms are end-to-end encrypted.

• A host definitely need a Facebook user id for a video call, whereas the other participants can join the video call through a link if they don't have Facebook id.

• One can also share the room details with their friends through News Feed, Groups and Events.

• If it is an official video conference or a private call, then the host can lock the room and avoid others from joining the video call.

• The host can add or remove the persons from the video call as per his wish.

• When it comes to camera settings, Messenger Rooms offers AI-powered 360-degree backgrounds and 14 different camera filters.

So guys, now you can happily have a video call with your near and dear ones… All your office conferences and meetings can also be conducted in a hassle-free manner with this 'Messenger Room' application!!!

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