This platform allows for improved and simplified experiences for hybrid work across the entire Webex Suite, with common architecture, administration, and integrations. It converges the meeting experience across Webex applications and devices, and unlocks potential for continuous collaboration before and after a meeting, with rich real-time experiences. For an overview, watch Welcome to the Webex Suite meeting platform

Summary of the recent releases are below. 

• Enhanced join experience for guest users—Web

This feature is available on Webex online free and paid plans. It is available on Webex enterprise plans from March (45.3).

When you join a meeting as a guest using your browser, you'll find the process is now quicker and easier. You can enter your name and, if required, your email address right on the meeting preview page where you see your self view and adjust your audio and video settings. If you prefer, there's also an option to sign in before joining.

If you're joining a Personal Room meeting on a Webex site with CAPTCHA enabled, you need to complete the CAPTCHA before reaching the meeting preview page. After that, just enter your name and, if required, email address to join the meeting as usual.

See Join a Webex meeting using the meeting link.

• Adjust the lighting for your meetings—Windows and Mac

We all join meetings from different places—sometimes it's a dim room, other times it's right by a bright window. To help keep our faces evenly lit, an intelligent relighting model has been introduced. The relighting model is trained with a wide range of lighting conditions, skin tones, and facial samples. It captures your image in real time and adjusts the lighting on your face directly through your device.

This feature is available only if your computer supports the app's intelligent lighting model. To turn on the feature, go to Settings > Video, and check Correct my lighting. It's turned on by default if you previously enabled automatic colour boosting using the Adjust my video setting.

If necessary, you can still manually adjust the brightness, contrast, and colour saturation of your video.

• Enhance manual close captioning with the option to manually type captions—Windows and Mac

As the meeting host or cohost, during a meeting, you now have the option to allow manual captioning and assign any participant to type captions.

If you're given the captioner role, simply open the manual captioning window in the app and start typing. Participants on Webex App for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and web can see the captions in real time as you type them. 

See Turn on manual captions in a Webex meeting and assign a captioner.

• See your self view and the videos of other participants when you’re sharing content—Windows and Mac

When you’re sharing content in a meeting, the floating window now defaults to grid view instead of focus view. Grid view shows the active speaker and other meeting participants.

If you want to see your self view in the floating window too, go to Settings > Video and, under Self view in meetings, choose either Show with others or Show in floating window.

If you prefer to see the active speaker only in the floating window, switch to focus view.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting.

• Easily find the app or screen that you want to share—Windows and Mac

If you open another app after the Share content dialogue box is already open, the dialogue now automatically refreshes to show the new app. Similarly, if you connect a different monitor, the dialogue now updates to display the new screen available for sharing. No need to close and reopen the Share content dialogue box.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting.

• Choose the correct audio device for meetings—Windows and Mac

To make it easier for you to select the right audio option for your meeting, we added the device type—Built-in, HDMI, USB, or Virtual—in parentheses next to the device name.

When you click on the dropdown arrow on the Mute button and you are presented with the Audio options, you might notice that devices that don't produce sound are listed. For instance, if your monitor is connected to your computer through HDMI, it appears as one of the audio options. So now, if you see HDMI next to a device name, you can opt for a different audio option.

See Webex App | Change your audio settings and Choose your audio and video settings before you join a meeting or webinar.

• Improved label display for speaker and microphone audio devices—Windows, Mac, and Web

We've made it easier for you to see the names of your speaker and microphone devices. Previously, the default setting, Use system setting, cut off the full name of your audio devices. You had to hover over the label to see the complete name. Now, when you click on the dropdown arrow on the Mute button and you are presented with the Audio options, the speaker or microphone device name shows on a separate line, under Follow system setting. This change makes it much easier to view the full names of your devices.

See Webex App | Change your audio settings and Choose your audio and video settings before you join a meeting or webinar.

• Cisco spatial meetings

Cisco spatial meetings deliver an immersive experience featuring life-like video and incredible depth using Webex meetings, a Cisco Room Bar Pro, and an Apple Vision Pro. The dual-lens cameras in Cisco collaboration devices capture stereoscopic images, providing a realistic 3D view of people, objects, and surroundings to meeting participants using Apple Vision Pro.

Read more about spatial meetings on Cisco Room Bar Pro.

• Experience spatial audio in meetings on Apple Vision Pro

When you pop out a participant's video during a meeting, you now hear their voice coming from their direction, making the experience more immersive.

See Webex App | Use Webex on Apple Vision Pro.

• Choose your preferred speaker in Firefox and Safari browsers—Web

Previously, you couldn't see or change the speaker device in the audio connections menu due to security limitations on Firefox and Safari browsers. Now, you notice that Follow system setting is selected by default. This means the active speaker device is the one chosen by your operating system. If you want to switch to a different speaker, select another option. A browser pop-up shows you a list of available speakers to choose from.

• Improved display of audio menu options—Web

Previously, you might have found inconsistencies in where the audio options were located on the meeting preview page, in the lobby, and during meetings. Also, an extra step was required to change your audio device. Now, things are simpler.

On the meeting preview page, all available audio devices show in an expanded list. This makes it easier for you to find and switch to a different speaker or microphone without hassle. Webex smart audio is now only available during meetings, ensuring you have the best audio experience when you need it most. The rarely used options to select no speaker, no microphone, and no camera have been removed to streamline your experience.

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