You can also select just one person to "spotlight" and the camera will digitally zoom in on just them. They both also have Adaptive Display tech, which automatically adjusts the screen's brightness according to its surroundings (It's worth nothing that Google's Nest Hub has had this feature for awhile now). Additionally, while last year's Portals were only available in the US and Canada, the new batch will now be available in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. © 2021 Verizon Media. This video conferencing supports multiple operating systems including Windows, Android, and iOS. Questions about any of this? Meanwhile, Google has already said it will begin accepting calls from Zoom on Nest Hubs before the end of the year, so expect more action and hopefully improved  usability. Whether you’re meeting one-on-one with a colleague or joining up to 1,000 participants,* Portal helps you get more out of your meetings. For online video conferencing, Zoom has become a part of many workplaces and organizations – and has even surpassed Skype. The one new Amazon device we really want to own, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. It's a camera that you attach to your television's HDMI port, thus transforming your TV into a giant smart display. Facebook will also continue selling last year's Portal+ for $249. Advertisement In a report by Engadget, Facebook Portal is getting some new features that add support for video calling apps, including the Zoom app. The new Echo Dot Kids Edition is covered in fabric with fun animal designs kids are sure to love. You probably didn't know you could do this, but … That said, not everything you do on Portal is 100 percent private. BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, Webex and Zoom will be available on Portal Mini, Portal and Portal+ in September, with plans to add support for Portal TV in the future. Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Facebook claims Zoom on Portal will help users get more from their meetings. Portal TV from Facebook, Smart Video Calling on your TV with Alexa Built-in 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,477. Just look for me on Twitter, where I'm @jeffersongraham. Similar to the other Portal devices, the Portal TV has a toggle switch that mutes the microphone and shuts off the camera simultaneously. You can easily disable the camera and microphone, or block the lens with the sliding camera cover. You ask Google to set up a meeting, then need to click the touchscreen to confirm. Portal TV is begins shipping November 5th for $149 — or you can also bundle two Portal devices together and take $50 off. The remote with Portal TV is now available at portal.facebook.com and will be in stores in the coming weeks. Facebook is also announcing that, along with making calls via Messenger, you can now use Portal devices to make video calls via WhatsApp. Alexa, on the other hand, is used for other tasks, such as looking up something on the internet or seeing who rang your Ring video doorbell. Without spending $21,199! All the Portals also have that AI-powered smart camera, which is able to digitally pan and zoom to frame your shot perfectly, no matter where you move around the room. Amazon will start selecting players in October. The other, however, is called the Portal TV. A dedicated 10-inch unit, for $250, the Echo Show 10, which lets you go through Alexa to connect to Zoom, Skype or Alexa-to-Alexa direct calls.Â. According to Facebook, there's no biometric or specific facial recognition going on here. After all, it's best to be at eye level, which most people ignore, and not have the webcam looking up at their chins and noses. New videogame consoles will really hard to get for Christmas. But Facebook Portal, a device specifically designed for video calling, has recently gained in popularity too. Facebook Portal device Note: Portal TV is not currently supported. So you've got to love Amazon's answer, which came later in the week. "Hey Portal" voice interactions are sometimes recorded and transcribed for a team to look at (much like with all other smart voice assistants) but they can be deleted, and storage of the voice recordings can be blocked entirely. The Portal TV accessory costs $149 / £149, making it cheaper than the $179 / £169 Portal smart display, but a tad more expensive than the $129 / £129 Portal Mini. Sign in to your Zoom … That dedicated device on the desk would solve the issue, living atop the books that could just stay there and not have to be moved around. The update started rolling out Friday. But how does it work There's also a physical camera lens cover if you want that extra bit of privacy. Facebook is hoping the addition of Netflix to its Portal TV will spur consumers to spring for the $149 video-conferencing device this holiday season. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/09/26/amazon-google-and-facebook-may-onto-something-zoom-device/3531594001/, dedicated video device for Teams meetings. Note: No special license is required to use Zoom … $214.99. Facebook acknowledges that it does collect some information about how you use Portal and that information may be used to inform the ads you see on Facebook. Portal TV has clear and simple settings so you’re always in control. This time, just use Alexa, your Zoom calendar and voice computing to connect. Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about. You open your phone, copy the invite, and text or e-mail the invite. As with the other Portal devices, you can use the Portal TV for video calls, which I have to say seems to be a very good use case for it. FACEBOOK: Warning of an urgent threat to democracy, civil rights activists say they've formed an independent Facebook oversight board to scrutinize the role the social media giant is playing in the 2020 election. No other problem except what I mentioned. Finally, we began this edition by talking about that crazy Microsoft TV/PC. Just gather in front of the TV and click the touchscreen. Pre-order the new Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S (Photo: Microsoft). Zoom, BlueJeans, GoToMeeting and Webex will be available on Portal, Portal mini and Portal Plus this fall. Meanwhile, that's not all folks. To get Zoom on the TV, all you need is a laptop, an HDMI cable, adapter to plug it into your laptop and webcam, and you're in business. The remote with Portal TV is now available at portal.facebook.com and will be in stores in the coming weeks. A dedicated video device for Teams meetings, a whopping 85 inches for display in a conference room or hospital corridor, so large everyone could see it, and be seen. All video and voice calls, be it from Messenger or WhatsApp, are end-to-end encrypted. Aside from that, many of the features on the new Portals are the same as last year's. The video-calling services will arrive on the Portal TV "in the future." (Photo: Facebook). There are many ways to schedule a meeting, including the Zoom web portal, through the Zoom client, or with one of our extensions or plugins. It works with multiple people too; the shot will automatically adjust to fit everyone in the frame. Zoom is the big one, but Webex, BlueJeans, and GoToMeeting are also coming to the Portal. For those who are taking meetings all day, the same issue applies. You'll just need to operate it from your laptop. Smart video calling now on the biggest screen in your home, with Alexa built in, AR experiences and more. So the savvy speaker or student would have to constantly move the books around. The portal TV reminded me a lot of the Xbox Kinect in the build style and size. Bret Kinsella from Voicebot.ai joins to compare notes. Amazon update and all those new products. The Portal was the first smart display to really put video chat at the forefront. Portal TV, which Facebook calls “the futu… Launch the Zoom app for TV, join meeting and enjoy video conferencing on big screen. Google generates a code to send to your guests, which it sends to your phone, via the Assistant app. Portal TV. It's also introducing new Portal and Portal Mini smart displays. Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. No longer would we have to fiddle around with the laptop or phone. I thought Portal+ with its 15.6-inch rotating display was something of an eyesore, for example. (It does now, but setup is highly convoluted. There's the indoor security drone from Ring that flies around your home automatically checking on things when you're not at home (so Amazon claims), and security cameras for the car. Setup preparations. There's just something about being able to see your callers on a large TV that makes it seem much more "immersive," as if they're actually there in the same room with you. The Portal TV, on the other hand, is not really a smart display on its own. Technician's Assistant: The TV … But you won't have to tie up laptop anymore. The Portal and Portal Mini will start shipping on October 15th, while the Portal TV begins shipping November 5th. Zoom will also come to the smaller Echo Show 8, also later this year, to a unit that's currently available, along with Facebook's Portal video chat device and Google Nest Home Hub Max. However, the Portal TV easily rests on top of my thin TV or entertainment center with the ability to ever so slightly angle down. For iOS users. Open the app and select mirror button to connect with your TV. How old is it? Portal Mini, Portal and Portal TV. It's a camera that you attach to your television's HDMI port, thus transforming your TV into a giant smart display. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. APPLE: Spotify and the makers of Fortnite and Tinder are taking on Apple and Google as part of a newly formed coalition calling for “fair treatment” in the way the tech giant runs its app store. (Both the Portal and Portal Mini have a 114-degree field of view camera.) Scheduling your first meeting. Technician's Assistant: Does the TV menu work? Got that? It comes with a small remote control to navigate the Portal TV interface. Both of them can be used in either landscape or portrait mode, the latter of which is especially handy for video chatting with someone calling in from their phone. The Coalition for App Fairness, a Washington-based nonprofit, will advocate for legal and regulatory changes, such as measures that could block Apple and Google from favoring their own apps in the iPhone and Android operating systems they control. The Ring products won't be out until 2021. Featuring high-fidelity sound and an AI-powered Smart Camera for hands-free video calling, Zoom on Portal can connect up to 25 people … Yet, those issues have not deterred the company, as Facebook is announcing not one, not two, but three new Portal models today. Additionally, the Portal TV has an 8-field microphone array (other Portal devices have a 4-field microphone array) in order to accommodate bigger spaces and the fact that you'll likely be further away from the device. Maybe not 85 inches, but many of us have good 50 to 60 inches or larger in the living room. Facebook's Portal or Amazon's new Echo Show 10 will get you closer to having more Zoom in your life. You'll know the microphone is off when an LED at the top of the device glows red. Smart, Hands-Free Video Calling with Alexa Built-in (Gen 1) 4.6 out of 5 stars 978. Zoom, BlueJeans, LogMeIn's GoToMeeting and Cisco's Webex will arrive on the Portal Mini, Portal and Portal+ in September. Isn't it hard to take notes when your laptop screen is filled with speaker video windows? How to buy a laptop for your kid (or revive an old one), Donald Trump is trying (and failing) to get around Twitter's ban, Amazon's Prime Pantry delivery service is no more, Apple and Google crack down on Parler after violent threats, Microsoft Teams 'Dynamic View' makes watching presentations easier, Tesla begins selling its cheapest Model Y yet. On Wednesday, Google holds its annual fall hardware product event, where it's expected to unveil a new top of the line smartphone, the Pixel 5, an updated streaming device, Chromecast and a new take on the Nest Home Hub video display unit. The AI-powered camera features are processed locally on the device, and not sent to Facebook's servers. It’s like a television that makes it feel like you’re in the same room, and all of the sudden it brings everyone together. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training … One feature that only the Portal TV has is Watch Together. To connect, you have to download ApowerMirror to your TV and Apple phone. I'd need to hear them in a quieter room however, to figure out how they compare to other smart speakers. So if you make a lot of video calls, you might see ads about video calling, or if you use Facebook Watch a lot, you might see ads related to that. Last year, Facebook made its first foray into hardware with the Portal and Portal+ smart displays, which featured an AI-powered camera that could track your movements. This would leave the students hands freer for schoolwork and notetaking on the laptop. It can identify whether or not a moving object is a person, but not who that person is. 21 offers from $144.00. Smart Camera pans, zooms and widens automatically, so you can move and talk freely while always staying in frame. It is Facebook Portal TV and I bought it only 2 weeks ago. The Portals start at $129, and are available in three sizes: with 8-inch, 10-inch or 15.6-inch screens. Featuring high-fidelity sound and an AI-powered Smart Camera for hands-free video calling, Zoom on Portal can connect up to 25 people on a screen. What if you want to put Zoom calls on your TV now, without having to wait for Amazon's Fire TV Cube update? The Fire TV products will be the first to come market, Wednesday, while Amazon says we'll see the new Echo devices in October and November. Again, no fiddling. An edition that connects to the TV, Portal TV, is not supported for the Zoom calls. ICYMI, Amazon announced 13 new products, including a redesigned Echo and Echo Dot speakers, which no longer resemble coffee cans but instead are now spherical, more powerful Fire TV Sticks (to help your programs load faster) and some wild stuff. The smart displays were originally marketed as places for video chat first, then using the video screen to look up recipes on YouTube, operate your smart home and best of all, as economical and easy to mount digital photo frames. There are several other privacy and security measures too. Example of bad webcam position, when the camera is too low (Photo: Larry Becker). The one new Amazon device we really want to own. Facebook claims Zoom on Portal will help users get more from their meetings. In "Watch Together" mode, your caller's window will be minimized to a small picture-in-picture in the upper right corner, while the video you're both watching takes up the whole screen. Connect devices with the same Wi-Fi; Download Now for iOS. Amazon also announced a new gaming service, Luna, which is invite only. In the beginning of the week, Microsoft announced something that, at first blush, sounds so cool, until you start to break it down. Right now, this feature only works with Facebook Watch, but there's a possibility that it'll work with other streaming services in the future. A dedicated 10-inch unit, for $250, the Echo Show 10, plug a webcam to the TV via the $119 Fire TV Cube device, not have the webcam looking up at their chins, Amazon also announced a new gaming service, Luna. Connect the HDMI cable from the TV to laptop, plug in the webcam and position it well (so it doesn't look up your nose) change your HDMI settings on the TV to bring in the laptop, and you've got a Zoom call on the big screen. That's not all either. In this article, let’s learn how to cast Zoom on your TV. Instead of just a single button that shuts off both functions, there's now a dual-stage sliding toggle: you can enable both of them, turn off the camera (an integrated physical cover will slide over the camera lens) but leave the microphone on, or disable both functions altogether. ), Nest Home Hub (Photo: Reviewed / Florence Ion). If not, Best Buy would be happy to sell you a 50-inch TCL, Samsung or Amazon-branded Toshiba TV in the $300 range. Also, as Facebook Watch is only accessible via a Facebook account (duh), the only way to watch it together is if the video call is via Messenger rather than WhatsApp. Ryan Olson, VP of Threat Intelligence at Palo Alto Networks joins to tell us. The Amazon solutions are both listed as coming soon, but if you have a Facebook Portal video chat device, you can use the dedicated unit to connect now to Zoom. It's a feature that lets you and another Portal TV owner watch the same shows together during a video call. The 2019 Portal has a 10-inch HD display (1,280 x 800), while the Portal Mini has an 8-inch HD display (also 1,280 x 800). Why can't I connect Zoom to Portal TV? Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training … The Portal TV is also its own smart device so it only needs the TV for video and sound. Plus, this way, you wouldn't have to worry about webcam placement. The Portal TV, on the other hand, is not really a smart display on its own. You can bundle any two Portal devices for $50 off. Find or clear a space for your Facebook Portal. By clicking this box and registering for this website, I agree that I have read, understand, and agree to Zooom’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Crazy things people connect to corporate Wi-Fi networks. To access your Zoom profile, sign in to the Zoom web portal and click Profile. Sign up for a Zoom account if you have not done so already, or if you have not been provided one from your organization. The “Real Facebook Oversight Board” is an initiative from Citizens, a new nonprofit created to hold big tech accountable. Portal users can host a Zoom meeting with upto 25 participants on-screen. The new models on the other hand, have a much more subtle design, with a narrow border around the edges that make them look more like picture frames than smart displays. I can see something like this being a big hit for people with large families, especially since the Portal TV's 120-degree field of view is able to fit more people into the same shot. Portal from Facebook. That's not really any different from just using normal Facebook, but it's at least something to be aware of. In stock on January 20, 2021. Google Pixel 4A phone (Photo: Jefferson Graham). Portal Mini has an 8-inch HD display and Portal has larger 10-inch HD display for video calls, displaying photos and watching videos in either portrait or … Do you have the same problem on all sources/inputs? See Portal TV article After you set up your Portal, you'll have a selection of apps already installed and a selection of apps available for download. Portal from Facebook [Gen 1]. Priced at $149, it's essentially a camera attachment that turns your TV into a giant smart display. Technician's Assistant: What Portal model do you have? Acquire a Facebook Portal device. 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