present your PowerPoint as a newsreader
Thanks to a new update of Microsoft Teams, it will soon be possible to present your PowerPoint – or other content – in new, more imaginative ways. The update should make meetings more fun and personal in the future.
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Microsoft Teams will be ‘less boring’
Since the corona crisis is still going on and we all continue to video call en masse, video conferencing services are busy improving their programs. Microsoft Teams hopes to make those endless meetings a bit more dynamic and, above all, less boring. A number of refreshing presentation models will be available soon, including an option to place your PowerPoint – or other content – on the top left of your shoulder. You yourself are cut out in the bottom right corner, making you like a newsreader.
There is also a ‘Side-by-side’ option, which puts you and your content side by side. With the third presentation model, called ‘Standout’, a cutout of your face floats on the content. Of course you can still choose a background yourself that has nothing to do with presenting.
In addition to the new presentation models, there is ‘Dynamic view’, which constantly adjusts the image. As soon as someone starts talking or presenting, Teams automatically adjusts the layout. In this way you as a viewer always see and hear only what is relevant.
Better PowerPoint integration in Microsoft Teams
Teams is also making PowerPoint Live available from today; a new feature that makes using a PowerPoint during a meeting easier for both the presenter and viewer. Presenters can now see custom notes, slides and a chat – all at the same time. As a viewer you can switch between the slides yourself, which is useful if you accidentally missed one.
The fact that Microsoft wants to make meetings more exciting is also evident from the words of Nicole Herskowitz, general manager of Microsoft Teams. “We need to make presentations more like TV shows,” she said The Verge. “We are looking for ways to make those digital experiences more powerful.” So Microsoft is probably far from finished when it comes to announcing new features.
