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Updated on September 23, 2022
Published on December 18, 2019
The Zoom engineers have been busy delivering new feature happiness this December! Following our Dec. 2 release, the team delivered another feature-packed release this past weekend based on your customer input. The pace of innovation with over 300 new features released this year is truly amazing! Here are a few of the coolest new features for Zoom Rooms, Zoom Meetings, and Zoom Phone:
Zoom Rooms’ native room control integration enables users to control IP-addressable devices, such as lighting, shades, air conditioning, and more, straight from the Zoom Rooms Controller. You can view this Zoomtopia session with our own JayJay Kim, Zoom Solution Architect, explaining how this works.
Zoom Rooms can now support virtual backgrounds with a green screen. Ideal for studios, webinars, broadcasts, and presentations, admins can upload backgrounds on the Zoom Rooms web portal and in-room participants can select their preferred background (or none at all) from the Zoom Rooms controller during a meeting. 
Waiting Rooms are virtual staging areas that prevent people from joining a meeting until the host is ready. Zoom Rooms users can now use waiting rooms as a host or as a participant and can further customize settings to control which participants can join when.
Digital Signage admins can choose different split-screen content layouts and select the content shown in each section. They'll also have the ability to display local weather. 
Companion whiteboard allows customers to deploy an additional Zoom Rooms for Touch device to an existing Zoom Room, enabling in-room and remote participants to whiteboard, co-annotate, and collaborate. Replace your analog whiteboards and enhance existing spaces without any additional licenses or expensive makeovers — all you need is a touch display and a Windows OS. Zoom Rooms for Touch users also can save a multi-page whiteboard as a PDF. 
Admins can create specific device profiles for different types of meetings. Device profiles can be configured for specific display settings, cameras, speakers, microphones, and screen layouts. Once created, these profiles can be selected via the Zoom Room Controller.
Zoom Rooms will be able to support multiple room controllers to help provide a better room control experience for larger spaces and settings. These controllers will be mirrored, providing completely synced UIs. You’ll also be able to mount multiple Scheduling Displays outside your larger spaces and rooms with multiple entrances to further simplify booking.
This native, out-of-the-box integration allows customers to integrate TalkDesk cloud contact center to Zoom Phone. Calls between the Zoom cloud and Talkdesk are directly routed over a private network peering connection for improved quality and automatic call routing capabilities. For the full list of new features, check out the release notes for Mac OSx, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux platforms, and follow these instructions to get on the latest Zoom version. For additional information, sign up for a customized 1-on-1 demo with a Zoom product specialist today.
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