Facebook has launched a live chat room feature which has started appearing on Facebook under the name Room. It is believed that this feature will compete with the famous video conferencing application Zoom. This feature of Facebook allows up to 50 people to have a live video chat for an unlimited time. This feature has been specially created keeping in mind those who study online, study schools or colleges or who take online interviews .
How different is the zoom and messenger room?
The free version of the Zoom app had the facility to simultaneously confer 100 minutes of video for up to 40 minutes. At the same time, you can make video calls for unlimited time with up to 50 people in the messenger rooms. It is not necessary to have a Facebook account to use Messenger Rooms. Like Zoom, it can be joined only through an invoice link. Apart from this, the Creator can also decide who can see their live chat when they chat live in the messenger rooms . All the users in the messenger rooms will get the notification to join the live chat and can decide whether they want to join the video chat or not .
Zoom app
After the lockdown, the Zoom app was liked by the people and its usage suddenly increased , but many governments including India advised not to use this app. The Zoom app has been accused of selling people’s data. About 100 million people have downloaded this app on Google Play Store.
Google hangouts
People also use Google Hangouts for online video chat. Only 25 people can join video chat here. Talking about the audio call, 150 people can participate in the audio call . It has the facility of screen sharing and sending video messages along with video calls .
Skype
Skype has long been famous for video calls, running on all devices such as mobiles, laptops, and tablets, this app can accommodate up to 25 people at once. About one billion people have downloaded it on Google Play Store .
Google duo
This is Google’s video conferencing app which has been recently updated . The special thing is that if someone is making a video call to you then you can see the face of the person even before taking the call . About 1 billion people have downloaded it on Google Play Store.
