Zoom Now Reacts to Visual Gestures Including Raised Hand and Thumbs Up
Zoom's latest update includes a range of new features, the most interesting of which is the ability of the software to recognize and react to visual gestures made by meeting participants.
The feature is simply called Gesture Recognition, and initially there's support for raised hand and thumbs up gestures. In response to detecting either physical gesture, the appropriate emoji will automatically appear as a meeting reaction. In order to take advantage of this new feature you'll need to be running Zoom client version 5.10.3 or higher, but don't worry, it's disabled at the client level by default so it's an opt-in feature.
Other notable updates include the Zoom Whiteboard experience being completely rebuilt to offer a persistent visual collaborative digital canvas. It allows for shapes, connectors, images, sticky notes, and messages to be combined on a canvas as ideas are thought through and pinned down during team meetings.
Zoom's development team has also improved the audio quality in Asia Pacific regions thanks to data center updates, implemented the ability to view breakout rooms from a main session, added a central library of polls for meetings, introduced spotlight cloud recordings for up to nine people in a single meeting, and added one-time passwords for suspicious logins. That last feature impacts anyone with a work email login, but two-factor authentication disabled, and Zoom spots unusual activity, e.g. the login is attempted from a different country than expected.
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