Enable video pop-out for non-presenters
As a non-presenting participant in a Teams meeting I want to be able to see both shared content and the video feed of other members simultaneously. I need to be able to view and control (e.g. move and resize) both the shared content and video feeds separate from each other.
Currently as a participant in a Teams meeting I cannot pop-out the video feeds as a separate window viewable at the same time as the shared content window. Only the presenter can get the participant video feeds in a separate pop-out window from the shared content.
As a non-presenting participant having the video feed only viewable as a small ribbon at the bottom of the shared content window or having to toggle between tabs to view either the shared content or video feeds is frustrating. I want to be able to see the faces of my teammates and follow along with the displayed content.
This functionality exists in other meeting software like WebEx and Zoom.
Amber Skidmore
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Daniel Arroyo
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Much needed. In real life you get to look at both the speaker and the presentation.
Skype for business used to do this and the competition does it as well.
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EW
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Mandatory to capture market share. Overall, these things are toys to the leaders at the top of the company. If they're impressed and get even a hint of the "ooo and ahhh" moment, then my roll out is secure. I just upgraded our board rooms to specifically go dual screen so they can see participants which is a MASSIVE quality of life upgrade. We're on WebEx, and we're actively rolling out Teams and O365 now, but the board will continue to use WebEx until I can accommodate this function. Imagine telling them "we use this now so your experience is worse". Do you think that helps or hurts us to buy more O365 products?
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Scott Edwards
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Mia
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I really miss the pop up video participant function, I would like to see the people I talk to while also having the presentation in full view on another display. This would make such a huge difference now in Corona times when we are forced to work from home and are more isolated than ever.
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Peter G
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+1
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Ascya B
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This rich feature from Skype is a must if Teams is to replace it.
Any technology used for meetings is marketed in a Meeting or Boardroom with 2 screens to show the user experience.
To release a product that cannot fulfil this for both presenter and non-presenter is a major downfall.
After promoting teams internally then to go back to skype is looked at negatively on the services internal IT is rolling out.
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Rob Katz
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+1
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John
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Plus one for me. I also want this feature.
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Joseba Laka
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Urgent, much needed feature.
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Kim
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Agree this is a must have feature. This will allow facilitators to track/manage participant engagement.
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GBer
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Agree, this is a feature I miss from Skype (and I really don't miss much about Skype). I have multiple monitors (as do most people I know), and having to choose between viewing the presentation or the video feed of attendees is annoying (the little bar with video at the bottom doesn't count as a "view" in my opinion).
Just being able to pop-out the video pane into another window would fix all this for me.
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Alexandre Boudreau
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This feature is also available with Skype for business. I want it too !
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Jet vermeulen
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Think this item might be covered here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/31661131-video-screen-size-when-sharing-screen
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Doug Manton
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I have two large screens, but with Teams one is empty and the other has a handful of teeny-tiny video boxes along the bottom while someone presents. This video is pointless because it's only a small number of participants and even those are too small to be useful. I cannot resize the space allocated to the video, so I cannot make good use of the space on a single screen
Instead I want to be able to have the video on one screen and the shared content on the second. Teams doesn't need to be aware of screens, just let me pop-out the video to a new window and I'll put it there. The video pop-out should give me the option of tiled (large gallery), active speaker plus tiled (as a split, draggable so I can decide how big to make the speaker versus the tiles), and just the active speaker.
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Anonymous
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Need this ASAP as well! will stick to Webex till it's available...
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Anonymous
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Need this ASAP.
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Anonymous
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very urgent!!
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Anonymous
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It's a must
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morgan
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Schnell.
MACH SCHNELL!
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Anonymous
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Our company needs this functionality for multiple use cases. It is one of the top 5 functions that is preventing us from moving from Skype to Teams 100%.