Due to the coronavirus epidemic, many employees are now working from home. Video conferencing tools are gaining ground as a means of communicating with colleagues. Such a time Microsoft, Google Including many big companies are busy capturing the market of remote working tools.

Meanwhile, a video conferencing app called Zoom has suddenly caught everyone’s attention. Why is Facebook behind? The world’s largest social media platform has come up with a new feature to bet with their messenger.

Using this new feature of Facebook Messenger called Messenger Rooms you can create a group video call and share it with everyone via link. Anyone who has the link can join a direct video call without a Facebook account and without signing in anywhere (much like Zoom). You can set the privacy of these calls if you want (who can watch or join this video conference).

Up to 50 users will be able to have video conferencing together using this new messenger room of Facebook. Call time can be unlimited. Before Messenger, group video calls could be made up to 6 people.

If you make a video conference public and share it on Facebook, people will be able to view and join those video conferences on the Facebook News Feed.

Video call participants can change their video background. You can even use Messenger’s various AR filters. It can use 360 ​​° video background which will change the location as you move.

From now on, video conferencing of 6 people can be done on WhatsApp, another app of Facebook. Earlier, four people could have video conferencing on WhatsApp. WhatsApp video calls will be end-to-end encrypted, but Facebook video calls will not be encrypted like WhatsApp. However, Facebook has said it will not intercept users’ video calls.

The Messenger Rooms feature will soon be on everyone’s account Will come. You can share a video call from the Facebook app just like a status update.