Moving the participants' videos to the top instead of bottom of screen

Anonymous
2020-03-31T22:34:19+00:00

It would be great if when a user is sharing their screen during a video call, the list of participants and their small video feeds were shown above the shared content rather than below it. Many times people are looking at themselves or other participants when speaking, and it looks to others like their eyes are closed. By moving the user's own image and the images of others to the top of the screen, above the shared content, there's a better likelihood that users will be looking upwards towards the camera rather than down.

Can this be changed in user settings or is this an optimization request?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-08T14:18:57+00:00

    +1 (currently very annoying)

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-02T13:47:18+00:00

    I agree. with laptop cameras at the top why would they not make this the default so you can look at the folks on the screen when in presentation mode.  Crazy!

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-01T09:06:13+00:00

    I have the same problem. With the increased use of video-calls creating as much eye-to-eye interaction as possible will help. That's why I use Zoom for important meetings, where I can move the participant gallery nearer to the camera.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-30T18:04:22+00:00

    Even better, let me move the participants videos to my 2nd monitor while viewing someone else's presentation.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-09-30T17:25:26+00:00

    I agree with this and would like to see this added!  This seems like an obvious thing that should already be available.  In a virtual world right now we need to make it as personable as possible.  This is available in other apps and some people would rather use the other apps since this is an option.

    I would also like to move the member row, but would prefer it on the left or right side of the screen, so the shared screen image would be larger.

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