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The single most important feature for business calls is screen sharing and basically no app is letting us see a 1 to 1 pixel full screen copy of the screen that
by pmontra 3y ago
The single most important feature for business calls is screen sharing and basically no app is letting us see a 1 to 1 pixel full screen copy of the screen that is being shared. All of them add nearly useless, unhideable and opaque bars with participants, buttons, etc. At least Skype lets zoom into the screen.
Looking at the faces of people, yeah, maybe for casual chat before the call starts but then it's useless and very few people ever complained if someone turns the webcam off.
- contravariant 3y agoI'm also still amazed nobody though of adding a simple pointer to the interface, the amount of minutes lost trying to convey to someone where some object on their screen is located is adding up very quickly.
- empyrrhicist 3y agoOn Zoom there's annotation which works pretty well for this.
- kypro 3y agoSlack allows you to highlight the other persons screen doesn't it?
- illiac786 3y agoThere is a pointer in zoom and webex, I use both.
- contravariant 3y agoYeah apparently it's a more common feature than I thought. It only seems to be missing from the software I'm forced to work with. Though I am allowed to use slack I think, will have to try that out.
- christkv 3y agoWe switched to using pop once I discovered the people behind screen hero made it. The ability to pair and also draw on the presenters screen is a massive win and it also shows the whole screen with annoying non removable bar like teams.
- illiac786 3y agoYou can draw on the presenter's screen in zoom and webex. Not sure about teams.
- eastbound 3y agoGood argument: Screensharing with zoom, pointer, and “take control” (available in zoom) is the killer feature of videocalls. We use it for both demos and support, and screensharing isn’t emphasized enough.
- schneems 3y agoTuple.app and Slack’s “huddle” are the two best screen share quality I’ve seen. I pair with both. Zoom is better than google hangout which seems to compress in a way that messes with fine lines and text.