{"id":41077,"date":"2020-07-09T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T10:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=65060d6283d7ac8e91e4b7de673984aa"},"modified":"2020-07-09T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T10:35:44","slug":"microsoft-teams-update-will-put-users-in-a-virtual-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-teams-update-will-put-users-in-a-virtual-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams update will put users in a virtual theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/bobby-hellard\">Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">9 Jul, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p>Microsoft has revealed a slew of changes to Teams that have been in development\u00a0since the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/business-strategy\/careers-training\/355356\/jobs-have-been-displaced-by-the-coronavirus-more-than-any\"  data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/business-strategy\/careers-training\/355356\/jobs-have-been-displaced-by-the-coronavirus-more-than-any\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a>\u00a0and subsequent lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are designed to improve user experience on the collaboration platform and drive greater engagement.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with &#8220;Together Mode&#8221;, which is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/ai-news\/ai-news-archive\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/ai-news\/ai-news-archive\">artificial intelligence<\/a>-based feature that places a digital avatar of the user in a virtual space. It essentially takes your face and shoulders and puts you, alongside the other members of the call, in a virtual theatre. This is being rolled out now, with other virtual spaces set to be added in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MGsNmYKgeTA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThe thinking behind the changes is to make users feel more &#8220;connected&#8221;, according to Microsoft. It wants the service to be more inclusive by making people more visible when they join conference calls. To do this, it has added a &#8220;Dynamic View&#8221; which allows users to share content side by side with other participants.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Dynamic View, users can also share live reactions with their teammates. This essentially resembles emoji reactions that appear in their intended recipient&#8217;s box as they talk. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/software\/microsoft-office\/355050\/microsoft-teams-supasses-44-million-users-in-first-week-of-mass\"  data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/software\/microsoft-office\/355050\/microsoft-teams-supasses-44-million-users-in-first-week-of-mass\">Teams<\/a> will also have video filters where users can adjust lighting levels or soften focus to improve your webcam while on a call.<\/p>\n<div id=\"file-7738\" class=\"file file-image file-image-gif file-content-original\">\n<div class=\"content\">    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cloudpro.co.uk\/sites\/cloudprod7\/files\/2020\/07\/live_reactions_in_teams.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Later in the year Teams will also support live transcriptions with a translate feature for meetings in other languages. The service will also get suggested replies for its chat features,\u00a0similar to Gmail&#8217;s suggested\u00a0replies function, that offers auto-fill text\u00a0based on\u00a0the context of the previous message in the channel. Microsoft is also adding &#8216;chat bubbles&#8217; so that the messages can be seen more clearly by other participants in the call.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnd, finally, Teams will also integrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/microsoft-windows\/34023\/microsoft-to-shift-cortana-focus-to-enterprise\"  data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/microsoft-windows\/34023\/microsoft-to-shift-cortana-focus-to-enterprise\">Cortana<\/a>, Microsoft&#8217;s voice assistant, on the mobile version of the service. Cortana will be able to make a call, join meetings, share files with colleagues and even send chat messages. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n<p>        9 Jul, 2020    <\/p>\n<p>      Microsoft has revealed a slew of changes to Teams that have been in development\u00a0since the start of the coronavirus pandemic\u00a0and subsequent lockdown.<br \/>\nThe changes are designed to improve user expe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41078,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41077\/revisions\/41078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}