New Delhi: JioMeet, which allows up to 24 hours of free video conferencing that are encrypted and password-protected, has added a safety feature that gives the conference host to disallow guests from joining a meeting without sign-in and disclosing their identity. The feature, company sources said, was added particularly in light of reports of obscene images appearing on screens during an online class being conducted on video-conferencing tool Zoom.
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JioMeet, in the very first week of going live, unveiled six features and enhancements including new functionalities for enterprise customers, sources said adding the new features prevent hackers from entering a conference. The enhanced feature app is available on Google's Play Store and will be shortly available on iOS, they said.
The new features include personal meeting rooms with the ability to set one's own meeting password to facilitate recurring meetings such as school classes and daily meetings.
Also, a JioMeet user can now enlarge and pin a meeting participant by double-clicking the participant video.
JioMeet also unveiled integration with traditional video conferencing solutions used by enterprise customers for collaboration across multiple offices from fixed locations. The use case is to offer flexibility for enterprises by allowing their employees to collaborate from office as well as home simultaneously, they said.