Prezi announces new features to add social media interactions to video meetings

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Company aims to promote two-way interactions and marque it easier to preview presentations.

Prezi announced caller features contiguous that let endeavor users to bring contented into their video feeds during unrecorded meetings connected astir video platforms, including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Webex.

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The caller features see the quality to:

Toggle betwixt View Modes to marque it casual to item a cardinal feature, information constituent oregon merchandise demo video.
Use the caller side-panel-only mode to preview slides close adjacent to the video conferencing app.
Switch betwixt Dark/Light modes based connected OS settings to amended readability.

Jim Szafranski, main enforcement officer, Prezi, said that companies volition soon beryllium looking for societal media-level engagement successful video meetings successful the signifier of onscreen responses to let attendees to prosecute the talker without interrupting.

"We are seeing first-hand that letting participants driblet GIFs, images, and typed responses into the video screen, leads to exponentially much feedback and engagement successful video meetings," helium said. "Each squad subordinate tin beryllium responding onscreen 5-10 times per meeting, wherever possibly they antecedently spoke erstwhile per call."

He besides predicts that companies volition commencement to adhd logos and different branding elements to video meetings via the "lower third" of the screen, overmuch similar the crawl connected quality channels.

"Think astir however websites looked erstwhile the net started, versus however they look now," helium said. "That's however acold the immersive virtual look of video meetings volition instrumentality us."

He besides thinks that making video meetings much interactive and little boring has the imaginable to erase the part created betwixt in-person and distant workers.

"In the hybrid bureau signifier we are heading into, I deliberation that employees tin bash a bully occupation moving from location by bringing their contented into the video surface astir them, making the thought that you are distant not constraining," helium said.

Prezi interviewed much than 1,000 hybrid bureau workers to pass the caller idiosyncratic experience. Based connected this feedback, the institution identified these apical 5 priorities among hybrid workers for making virtual meetings better:

More immersive video gathering experiences/building idiosyncratic connection
Tools that are profoundly integrated wrong existing workflows
On-screen branding and beingness for unit and income video meetings
Expanded quality for the assemblage to prosecute the talker done ocular and copy-driven responses
Ability to marque immoderate contented oregon platform video-ready

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The caller UX is disposable connected Prezi Video for Web, Mac and Windows.

Prezi announced an integration with Google Slides successful July. Prezi Video allows users to contiguous videos, GIFs, presentations, images and benignant substance on-screen of a unrecorded oregon recorded video. In summation to Google Meet, Prezi Video works with each large video streaming platforms. Prezi announced an integration with Google Workspace earlier this year.

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