![]() Earlier this year, rights groups criticized the company after an executive mentioned the company was interested in potentially incorporating emotion-tracking AI into the Zoom experience. Zoom stressed this lack of data gathering to Gizmodo. Zoom Chief Product Officer Smita Hashim claimed its system doesn’t collect any kind of biometric data, but simply detects if the people in front of the camera have the requisite proportions. In a demonstration, the company showed that the cameras will automatically pick up on any figure that has a face or shoulders, even cardboard cutouts of people like Michael Scott from The Office. ![]() Intelligent Director is available now in beta form for all who install the new 5.15.0 Zoom Rooms update. The company claimed this new system avoids the “bowling alley effect” seen in a lot of large board room video meetings where most participants sit as far away from the camera as possible like all the cool kids hiding in the back of the class. Zoom’s software will focus on each participant’s face, display their face in a box on screen, then track them as they move. On Tuesday, Zoom announced its new Intelligent Director feature, meant to allow more people in mid-to-large sized board rooms to appear present in a meeting, even if they’re trying to squirm far away from the evil eye of a camera within a giant screen at the head of the room. Now, the company is adding features to ensure everybody in a meeting is seen up close and personal, no matter how hard they try and avoid eye contact during regular company meet-and-greets. Without a wide-ranging pandemic keeping everybody at home, and with more companies demanding their workers slog to the office, the video conference company is trying to angle its software to increasingly hybridized workplaces. Good luck trying to hide your head behind your coworkers, as Zoom’s latest feature can use multiple cameras to find the best angle to see your face. ![]() A Zoom meeting where a camera tracks multiple participants. ![]()
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