Show video for all people in Video meeting

Currently when in a video chat it only shows the active video for the last 4 people that have spoken in the chat. On the bottom bar it shows icons for all those in the chat. If it could show small video for all those in the chat that have their cameras turned on it would be beneficial. Then everyone on the video conference can see the reactions of others, whether they were the last to speak or not.

This is a problem with most video chatting applications. Google Hangouts it the only one we have found that shows video of all the participants on the screen.

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Grady Hartman shared this idea · November 08, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

coming soon ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · July 01, 2020

I’m excited to announce that a new Large Gallery view, with the ability to see up to 49 participant in a meeting, is coming soon to Teams! Large Gallery will release as an optional (preview) feature that can be turned on at any time during a meeting. Large Gallery has a flexible design and will deliver a network-optimized client video experience that works on multiple device categories. During the preview, the Large Gallery experience will be available for desktop Teams client on both Windows & Mac, as well as for mobile Teams client (iOS, Android) users.

You can read more about Large gallery view, as well as the new Together mode feature, here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-june-2020/ba-p/1489142.

Large Gallery will begin rolling out with the new pop-out meetings experience for desktop clients in early July, and we are targeting full availability including mobile clients for iOS and Android by early September.

For more details, check out the Roadmap item: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=65333.

Thanks,
Alex & the Teams team

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partially done ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · June 23, 2020

As announced before, 3×3 video has been released to the Public ring on Windows and Mac! Additionally, we are actively working on supporting enhanced video views (up to 7×7) in meetings. The new Large Gallery feature supporting 7×7 will be released with the new pop-out meetings experience, which is beginning roll-out later this month.

Additionally, we are working on including more videos on supported mobile platforms. We will keep you posted!

partially done ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · May 18, 2020

We are excited to announce the 3×3 video view has been rolled out 100% to for Windows and Mac Clients. If you aren’t seeing 3×3 yet, please logout and log back in to the client.

We realize 3×3 is a start, but not good enough… as mentioned, we are continuing to work to include more videos during a meeting, as well as enabling support for mobile devices. Hence, the “partially done” status.

Please see documentation here: https://support.office.com/article/using-video-in-microsoft-teams-3647fc29-7b92-4c26-8c2d-8a596904cdae

Enjoy!

coming soon ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · May 11, 2020

I sincerely thank everyone for your patience and enthusiasm. I know those of you who haven’t received 3×3 view are anxiously awaiting this popular feature request. As you know, it is important for us to roll out gradually as we monitor signals to ensure the quality of our service remains high. This particular rollout has required a little more time than expected. At this point, we look to be on track to complete enabling for all users in the general public by the end of this week.

As I’ve said in past posts, we are continuing work to increase this limit even further.

I’ll keep you posted! Thanks!

~Alex & the Teams team

in testing ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · April 29, 2020

We are in the final stages of testing the update to view nine participants simultaneously, and have begun rolling out to external customers. Given it’s a staged rollout, please sit tight if you don’t see it yet… it will take up to a couple weeks to reach everyone in the public ring.

A reminder, that we are continuing work to increase this limit even further.

Thanks!

great news! ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · April 13, 2020

We will start rolling out our first update to view nine participants simultaneously by the end of April. In parallel we are continuing work to increase this limit even further. Stay tuned!

working on it ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · March 30, 2020

Based on recent feedback, we are accelerating our work to increase the number of participants shown in the main meeting window. Stay tuned for more updates. Thank you!

working on it ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · January 14, 2020

Wanted to share that we are continuing to make good progress on this feature. We’ll update as we have more details on timing to share.

working on it ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · May 14, 2019

We are working on supporting more than 4 videos in a Teams meeting. We don’t have a date to share, but will update as we get closer to completion.

Thanks.

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · September 09, 2018

This item is still in the backlog. No further details are available at this time.

-Warren

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · July 30, 2018

This feature request has been accepted by the feature team and is now queued and in the backlog.

Thank you for the feedback!
-Warren

under review ·

Warren responded · March 01, 2018

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Anonymous commented · April 01, 2020 02:36 · Flag as inappropriate

This is vital. As is put your hand up and sharing screen as well as the organiser's face at the same time. Zoom has these things and it is vital for education purposes.

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Anonymous commented · April 01, 2020 02:35 · Flag as inappropriate

I am very disappointed by Teams' 2x2 display. It is just not good enough.

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Anonymous commented · April 01, 2020 02:32 · Flag as inappropriate

It is of vital importance that we could see more than 4 people in a Teams meeting.
Please develop this urgently!
Kind regards,

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Dan Broadberry commented · April 01, 2020 02:16 · Flag as inappropriate

We will imminently be moving to Zoom if this isn't available right away. I'm sure a lot of other companies will be doing the same too! Please cn you provide at least an estimate on when this might be in place? Even just an increase to showing 20 people would cover most scenarios. How long will this take?

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Dave Webb commented · April 01, 2020 01:50 · Flag as inappropriate

2 years. Come on get a grip. With the COVID-10 crisis upon us, now is the time to sort it. People will take up Zoom

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Arjun commented · April 01, 2020 01:46 · Flag as inappropriate

Would love more video feeds, and different layout for different collaboration, education, team, sales presentation meetings.

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Anonymous commented · April 01, 2020 01:14 · Flag as inappropriate

I believe Zoom is the one where all participants can be visible during video chat

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Anonymous commented · April 01, 2020 01:05 · Flag as inappropriate

Yesterday it worked. You are really working on it. 🙂 Thanks

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Josep Rico commented · April 01, 2020 01:01 · Flag as inappropriate

We have to move my whole company to zoom because we need this implementation :-( so sad.

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Hu Da commented · April 01, 2020 00:51 · Flag as inappropriate

Any timeline?

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Anonymous commented · April 01, 2020 00:34 · Flag as inappropriate

Working on it for over 2 years, seriously??? We now are forced to use zoom 😠

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Costyn van Dongen commented · April 01, 2020 00:34 · Flag as inappropriate

Please implement this!

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Clive Hornsby commented · April 01, 2020 00:22 · Flag as inappropriate

If Teams does not show a similar number of participants as Zoom it will lose out.

The COVID-10 crisis could cause a massive migration to Zoom, which does not have the additional functionality and security levels we have within Microsoft Teams.

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Anonymous commented · April 01, 2020 00:20 · Flag as inappropriate

How do you change a setting to be able to show 4 participants? I only ever get one

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Johannes Wilk commented · April 01, 2020 00:14 · Flag as inappropriate

The gallery view is very important for our company. Many thanks if you improve this point quickly.

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Calum Steen commented · March 31, 2020 23:51 · Flag as inappropriate

This is essential for me. I don't trust my lazy team of devs not to bunk off when 'working' from home so must be able to see them all sitting at their computer via webcam. I need to see when they put up their hand to use the restroom.

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Amit Gupta commented · March 31, 2020 23:45 · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you, this is most demanding feature from our educator community.

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Loren Bordeaux commented · March 31, 2020 23:28 · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you for working on this. My org is using Zoom more and more but also trying to get staff to use Teams. This is a battle with all the Zoom features compared to Teams specifically for VC. It’s getting to be a harder sell. Plus I’d rather be buying more Microsoft products, like M365 vs spending more on another VC platform.

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Anonymous commented · March 31, 2020 23:19 · Flag as inappropriate

We have to be able to see all students in the session... this is critical.

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Tim Fry commented · March 31, 2020 23:15 · Flag as inappropriate

The sooner the better. COVID-19 has pushed teaching online and not being able to see more than 4 from your class is crazy!!!

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