MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Viber launched new features for video calling in the Philippines, enabling group video calls for up to 20 people with unlimited duration.
Inspired by the success of Viber’s group audio calls feature, the added support for video hopes to meet the growing demand for large video calls to replicate face-to-face conversations and conferences.
Viber’s group video calls are easily accessed from the Viber app, with support for work-friendly features like screen sharing and video broadcasting for both mobile and desktop devices.
Starting a video call can be done by tapping the “video” button added to the top of the screen. Participants can be added to an ongoing video call.
The group video calls give the speaker the floor, sharing their video for all participants. Users can choose to privately pin anyone’s video to their personal screen during the call. Users can also mute themselves or disable their video during the call, as well as see if other participants are on mute or if their video is turned off.
“We’re excited to enable users to participate in video calls with up to 20 people, and we’re going to expand this further very soon. Viber serves an important purpose to society, now more than ever, in that it enables users to communicate easily. Video discussions will be part of our lives much more than before, that is why we decided to launch this feature, and bring users another step closer to real, face-to-face meetings when these aren’t an option,” said Ofir Eyal, COO of Viber.
