Add better support for full room cameras
We use this camera in our conference room: https://www.owllabs.com/. It is designed to show a 360 degree view and also focus on the speaker(s). When Teams does its own resizing of the video, it often cuts off portions of the view from this camera. It would be nice to force teams to always show the full perspective from this camera (even if it is resized smaller). It would also be nice to set this as a "primary" camera in the meeting, so that it is not resized smaller.
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Christian LeBourgeois
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It shouldn't b just for "room cameras" but even cameras on your pc. The laptop could have two people sitting in front of it and it not only starts off with an extra 10-15% zoom but it also will crop the screen if ANYONE else join... even a dial in user.
So in the scenario above I have 2 people that cannot fit on screen unless they are cheek to cheek which isn't going to be a good workaround I tell my users, and additionally you have an entire half of the screen with a bluish background and a phone number indicating the dial in user who we do not need to see AT ALL. This is the same issue Skype for Business had which made their platform vastly inferior to all the other meeting platforms (Zoom, GoToMEeting, Webex, etc)
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jcm
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Please make this a priority, I have a large number of Room Cameras that are being impacted by this switch to teams.
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Carlos
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We have started using Teams for conferencing after being forced to move form Skype for business and typically we do conferencing with 10+ people in the room and anywhere from 2-10 people remote on cameras/phones. This auto cropping is having a big issue in our ability to conduct meetings as it currently only shows half of the room without the ability to modify more advanced settings to maybe at least limp along.
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Anonymous
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We are now selling good numbers of MTR's for use as room-to-room solutions. This image cropping makes perfect sense for desktop use but is simply wrong when communicating with a meeting room. We love Microsoft, Teams and the MTR solution but we are getting complaints and it's hard to handle them when we don't have a solution to offer (apart from Zoomrooms)
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Ash Parker
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I just had a meeting where all I saw was an empty chair because the two people I was talking to happen to be sitting on the right hand side of the view. It got cropped to profile and they got cut out. The resolution of the chair was excellent though.
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Mehmet Demirörs
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UNDER REVIEW since 8 months?
There are other post refering to the same issueas this one.
Can you pls. merge the votes and the ideas?more than 300 votes - Wide-angle web cams are cropped
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/31024261-wide-angle-web-cams-are-cropped -
Anonymous
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Come on Microsoft, surely this isn’t a big ask
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HES
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I read the comments thusfar and this one below sums up our experience. Losing Skype and now Teams is not resizing the video properly... Microsoft please fix!
TomK commented · June 13, 2019 12:29 ·
Please fix this Microsoft. Owl was compatible with Skype, but now that Skype is a thing of the past we need the camera to be compatible with the Owl camera pronto-quicko! -
Ronnie van Gelder
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I have seen several topics on this issue, and it feels like it 's not being picked up. We have loads of team meetings with bigger groups and wide angle cameras. Especially when I'm together with 2 other participants, I only can see half of the room.
This is a huge limitation of Teams. Loads of other video meeting tools/apps have this feature working. It wasn't an issue on Skype. I agree on the latest comment.
Can you please update this topic and make it a big priority? -
COREY BOKOWSKI
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Teams is supposed to cover the features of Skype for Business, this needs to be addressed.
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Anonymous
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Would love for this to happen. My company is basing the next communication on this feature and I can't recommend this product without it.
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Anonymous
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This would be nice to have for teams. We will be forced to use Zoom without it.
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Mark Wiseley
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Please fix this. Many cameras give you wide views and your cropping in Teams makes them unusable.
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TomK
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Please fix this Microsoft. Owl was compatible with Skype, but now that Skype is a thing of the past we need the camera to be compatible with the Owl camera pronto-quicko!
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Ian Caldwell
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Our company is committed to reducing our flight travel - so we need excellent e-meeting solutions. Teams works great, but more control is needed so we can support 360 degree cameras and similar professional video conferencing devices.
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MichaelF
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We have a Microsoft branded Polycom Round table and it cuts and crops with no panorama view. MS -please fix these small but annoying problems. People have bet on MS with Skype for Business and now Teams and your lack of support for existing equipment is killing us.
Hello - is this user voice feedback even being reviewed and curated anymore?
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Irwan Djajadi
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I definitely miss this, coming from Skype for Business
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Dave
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I've got my CEO going nuts at me because of this. I really sold the idea of Teams and how it has a user friendly interface. All the testing went great but it was all one to one. I got three rooms together and the cameras decided to cut most people out.
It might be a great feature in some instances but I'd like to turn it off to just have a regular webcam view so we can include everything within the meeting. -
Wielligh
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This feature is requested more and more inside our business as people are switching to TEAMS.
The panoramic view with the focused views is something that is used often in Skype for Business and is missing in TEAMS. There are quite a few of these 360 cameras and they are growing in our huddle spaces and small meeting rooms. We can add Polycom CX5100 /CX5500 and Panacast to the list of user requests. In my case, it is also holding certain types of meetings rooms back from moving to TEAMS. So add my urgent request for this feature as well. -
TradeIT
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Let's get this one sorted - 360 cameras will be the norm for many meeting scenarios as it provides a great experience for remote attendees. Can't be so difficult to fix.