The year is almost over, but there’s still time for a few final updates from our favourite collaboration and UCaaS companies. Following a series of updates in the last few months to the Zoom experience, including the arrival of Zoom Apps and the OnZoom marketplace, the video conferencing company has released a few extra enhancements.
Just in time to close 2020 with a bang, Zoom announced that it’d developed support for Apple Silicon processors, which means that the MacOS Zoom desktop client will now better support computers with ARM CPUs. Separate installers are also available in the Zoom download centre.
Enhanced cloud contact integrations are also available now for Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, and Android. Contacts imported through the contact service will now easily be available to add as a Zoom contact. Once you approve someone as a Zoom contact, you’ll be able to call them, met with them, and see their status.
Zoom Meeting and Webinar Features
To transform the meeting experience even further, Zoom introduced the arrival of nonverbal feedback and reactions. Windows, Linux, iOS, and MacOS users will be able to use nonverbal feedback options through the reactions button. The reactions will appear in the corner of the participant’s video, and hosts will see each of the participant’s reactions in the list of attendees.
Raise hand features are now available for co-host and host abilities, with MacOS, Windows, Android, Linus, and iOS users. Hosts and co-hosts will now be able to utilise the feature alongside webinar attendees and meeting participants.
Poll reports will also be available through live sessions for Mac, Linux, and Windows users. The meeting and webinar hosts will now be able to download the full poll results when the poll has ended during a live session, instead of waiting until the end of the meeting or webinar.
