Virtual Backgrounds! + September updates
We recently launched background blur. Now by popular demand, we've added virtual backgrounds. Here's a demo video:
Screenshare improvements:
- More bandwidth-efficient screenshare
- Allow screenshare viewers to adjust the quality of the screenshare
- while screensharing, fade cursors after 5 second of not moving
- Ability to stop someone’s screenshare - e.g. if they forgot to stop screensharing (click on their name in the call box)
Meetings
- If someone’s in a Zoom/Meet meeting on Tandem, you can still call them (you'll be warned first)
- In the Meeting Details side panel (click on a meeting title in the team list), you can invite meeting participants to Tandem in a click.
Other call improvements
- Renamed “Start side conversation” to “Invite to a new conversation” in user menu
- On a call, there's an “Add people” button in the triple dot menu
- Leave calls quietly (only play a leave sound when you/they become the last person)
- Small improvements to Same Room (hybrid calls) feature - e.g. the "Same Wifi Detected" dialog is always on top
- Chat improvements: emoji responses are larger, shortcodes (like Slack, but no autocomplete), no jittering, delete or copy messages (right-click on the message), fix for double-sending messages on disconnect
- Fixed cases where reconnect could get stuck
- Fixed missing streams when other users reconnect
- Fixed “chonky” video when HD mode and FPS mitigation kicks in
- Fixed custom apps not showing up as presence on Windows
- Fixed issues with Crosstalk being lost