Control your video conferencing feeds with our new scene manager!
Here’s a little treat for our PC users: our new Scene Manager allows you more control over your video feeds.
NOW when you fire up your video conferencing, you can drag and drop the individual video feeds to rearrange them!
What does this mean? Well check it out! Two quick drag and drops, and it’s easy to bring Floyd and Kristen to the headlining video positions.
And, if you pop-out the video scene manager into its own window (How do I do this?) you can also select and control the arrangement of your participants video feeds.
An added perk: With our updated scene manager, we will now support both DirectX instead of OpenGL which helps with PC compatibility! (Macs already support open GL.)
Just a reminder – right now it’s only available on PC’s but it’s coming to Macs shortly!
Announcing: Video conferencing purchase available on the iPad
Announcing: Video conferencing purchase available on the iPad
Reaching one more rung on our ladder to 100% mobility, we’re pleased to announce that now, Fuze Meeting Pro is available as an in app purchase on your iPad! With this purchase option, you’ll have access to the total Fuze Pro package which includes video conferencing with up to 10 video feeds, up to 100 attendees and webinar mode!
Freshly approved by Apple, when you go to make an in-app purchase, you will now see THIS little beauty.
Note: The copy says you’ll get access to 15 attendees. Don’t worry, for Pro you’ll still get 100, just like if you sign up on the web. The copy in the app will be updated shortly!
Fuze Meeting at an Apple Store near you
It’s no secret that here at Fuze Meeting we pride ourselves on our mobile collaboration expertise. So it’s always nice to receive, and share, great news about any of our mobile apps.
Today, we can officially announce that our awesome Fuze Meeting iPad app is now on all iPads in every Apple Store in the U.S.!
Our iPad customers love the full range of functionality our app offers, including HD video conferencing, so we’re confident that Fuze Meeting will wow the millions that enter Apple Stores on a daily basis.
Huge thanks to our product and development teams for the hard work on getting our app pre-installed. It’s a huge compliment to have a company who values quality user experiences, such as Apple, include us on their marquee in-store product.
If you happen to be in an Apple Store any time soon, please check us out and tell us what you think by visiting our Facebook Page or on Twitter @fuzemeeting.
Thank you Apple and thank you to our amazing customers!
Mendocino Film Festival uses Fuze Meeting to connect a director with his audience!
At FuzeBox, we pride ourselves in being the web conferencing solution to a myriad of different types of businesses and professions – everyone from after school tutors to board members of Fortune 50 companies utilize our solution for its ease of use and feature rich platform, but when the Mendocino Film Festival, one the fastest growing festivals of its kind, came calling we knew we were in for a new type of challenge.
Recently the Director of the Mendocino Film Festival, Michael Fox, reached out to us with a dilemma: the director/lead actor of the award-winning movie The Athlete AKA Atletu/Atleten (about Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bilkia) was scheduled to attend the festival and host a Q&A session after his screening. However, he was now being called to NYC to accept yet another award for his astonishing film.
The Director, Rasselas Lakew was distraught! How could he be in two places at once to promote his film? (Enter Fuze Meeting, stage left)
With only days before the scheduled Q&A session between the Director and his adoring Mendocino fan base – the Fuze Meeting Team sprang into action! By the following afternoon we had sent Rasselas an iPad2 and had him trained on our app!
And…it went swimmingly! Check out this picture of Rasselas as he accepted the award for best narrative feature, from 3,011 miles away!
And how did they think it went? Well, we’ll let them speak for themselves!
“Fuze Meeting forged a connection between the filmmaker and the audience for an intimate Q&A session in a unique and authentic way,” declared Michael Fox, Executive Director of the Mendocino Film Festival.
“The Video conference I had via Fuze was extremely user friendly…it was easy to set up and it’s connection was fast and effective. The whole experience was phenomenal” said Lakew Rasselas director of The Athlete.
We love our jobs here at FuzeBox and getting to hear feedback like that from a new user makes the race to be the best in web conferencing that much more rewarding!
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This blog post was brought to you by guest blogger Floyd Tucker! When not rocking out with his band or whisking off to Mendocino to facilitate cross-country meetings , you can find him training new corporate clients on the wonders of Fuze Meeting.
Why Telepresence is a Corporate Jet
Perhaps you’ve seen the news … we’ve just launched a new product: Fuze Telepresence Connect! If you’re familiar with telepresence systems, you probably see what a game changer this is. BUT…if this whole telepresence idea is new to you, then let’s see if we can clear things up…
Picture a corporate jet. Really fancy, pretty much only for executives, it’s expensive to buy, it requires a whole team to operate, it costs a lot just to maintain in a static state, and enormously more if you want to actually use the plane as a plane and turn the thing on. It really is THE ultimate flight experience, but most of the time…it just sits there on a tarmac – not being used and gobbling up money.
The future & our contest winner!
Last weekend we co-ran a contest with TechCrunch where entrants had to comment on what the future of teleconferencing looks like.
Congrats to the chosen winner Jerry Schuman who takes home a shiny new iPad 2 with his comment:
Weekend Giveaway from TechCrunch!
A rare weekend blog post from you friends here at Fuze Meeting, we just wanted to let you know that we’ve sponsored a giveaway for one shiny new iPad 2 via TechCrunch!
All you have to do is
1. Like us on our Facebook page.
2. leave a comment explaining comment on the TechCrunch article describing what you think the future of teleconferencing will look like.
We’re already getting some great responses and the article has only been up for a few minutes! There seems to be a lot of love for holographic video conferencing and robots. Hm…looks like our dev team has some work to do…
What your attendees see when you’re hosting a video conference
Hi Again! Most of you saw our post on how to start a video conference from your host account, but there are some little nuances that make your attendees’ experiences a little different, so we wanted to point them out.
When your attendees log in, they will be able to expand the video conferencing panel, but if you, the host, have not selected to begin the video conference, the “Join Video Conference” button will be grayed out as it is below. (more…)
3 things you need to know about video conferencing etiquette
Lighting, clothing & background
Well, a week into your video conferencing subscription, and I’m sure you’ve noticed…there’s a way to do it well, and then there’s the “other way.” Needless to say, there are about 4000 little tips and tricks we could dish out, but for NOW, we’re going to focus on the three most important and easiest to master.
1. Lighting matters. The difference between one light bulb is, well, the difference between night and day. The only difference in these images below is flipping on one little desk lamp. So do yourself a favor and brighten up!
Tip: If you have a bright light shining right at you and you *still* look dark, you’re probably backlit. If able, spin yourself around so you’re facing into the light, and I bet you’ll look a lot better.
How to Video Conference from Fuze Meeting
Our video conferencing is amazingly intuitive, but just in case you need some help, here’s a handy little guide to get you started. Now…just a reminder, video conferencing is only available as part of our professional package but you can upgrade at any time.
Once you login to Fuze Meeting from your host account, a frameless browser window is launched and you’ll see a “Start Vid Conf” button on your home screen.
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