Seeing is believing, but the image of this new Zoom feature can be described in one word: “Huh?”
Zoom announced on March 22nd that it will be able to attend meetings in the form of rabbits (or dogs, foxes, pandas, horses, etc.). The avatar function recognizes the shape of the eyes, nose, and mouth to mirror the movement of the user’s head and facial expressions, but the company announced in its announcement that this function does not use face recognition and is a living body. It has made it clear that it will not store any information.
These avatars are intended to provide Zoom tired people with a way to convey body language and facial expressions without actually seeing them in the camera. On the other hand, if you’re a high school teacher, you’ve logged in to teach a class, but instead 25 rabbits line up on the screen, just like the characters in the pandemic-era “Donnie Darko” reimagining. If you’re staring back at you as if you were …
Avatar is available for both Windows and macOS desktop devices and iOS mobile devices for Zoom version 5.10.0 and above (sorry for Android users who want to be horses). To use this feature, click the caret (^) mark next to the Start / Stop Video button. Select either “Select Virtual Background” or “Select Video Filter” to display a tab called “Avatar” where you can complete the interracial makeover.
Avatar supports virtual backgrounds. It’s also important that talking animal avatars can wear either a hoodie or a T-shirt.
Initially only animal avatars, but it’s easy to imagine that other types of avatars will be added in the future. Your boss will transform into a minion).
Zoom suggests that this feature may serve as a virtual pediatric visit, a children’s science class, or an “icebreaker during a virtual event.” The last one may be unreasonable. But if Zoom wants to heal our Zoom tiredness as it enters its second year of the global pandemic, there are some suggestions on how to make it even more exciting.
- Incorporate a voice modulator.And talk like Darth Vader and intimidate his colleagues
- Add points to Zoom to make it a game. What are the points useful for?I’m not a product designer so I don’t know that
- Add an HP bar to a Zoom room with a time limit.Near the end of the time, a flame will appear next to the screen, and when the meeting is over, it will become an explosive gif.
- It tells the user base that one in 100,000 people who talk on Zoom will be sucked into the computer in a “Tron” style, releasing adrenaline to the user base.The only way to regain control of your body is to send a procrastinated email
- A mini game of fishing.Even enterprise software works better than everything with a fishing mini-game.
Image credit: Zoom
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