Video conferencing applications have grown in popularity during containment, so the big names in tech have been busy developing their own application or proposing new ones. This is particularly the case of Facebook, which last month introduced Messenger Rooms in beta. Facebook announced yesterday the global rollout of the functionality, which should be available from us in the coming days.
The special feature of Messenger Rooms is that it allows you to make video calls to up to 50 people, without any time limit. Facebook members can create chat rooms and share the link of the rooms with specific people by private message or more generally via a public publication.
With or without Facebook account
Another special feature of Messenger Rooms is that you don't need to have a Facebook account to join a conversation. You just have to open the link from a web browser.
Several features are available in conversations, including filters, adding themes or 360 ° backgrounds.
Regarding confidentiality, Facebook ensures that neither the audio nor the videos of Rooms will be used for advertising purposes. Note, however, that end-to-end encryption is not applied here.
Rooms can be created from the iOS and Android applications of Facebook and Messenger. It will also soon be possible to launch Rooms chats from the Web version of Messenger available on the Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store.
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