Exciting App Announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2022
If you follow Microsoft products, then you may know about Microsoft Ignite. Held annually, it generates many exciting updates and announcements in the Microsoft world.
Microsoft held its most recent conference last October but many people still aren’t up to date with all the new features, so here are a few of the exciting app announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2022.
Something that may not surprise you is the love the events gave for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft is now describing Teams as “the app at the center of Microsoft 365”. Teams now has over 280 million users, so it’s unsurprising that Microsoft has introduced more than 450 new features to the app in the last year alone.
We’ll go through some of the best new Teams features below, along with other exciting announcements from Microsoft Ignite.
Teams Premium
There is a new Teams Premium offering that adds a whole new AI component to the platform. This service includes several AI-powered features that make it seem like you have your own PA.
Some of the cool features include automatically generating chapters from a Teams meeting and personalized highlights for you, which saves you having to rewatch the meeting later.
If you’re meeting internationally, you can enjoy real-time translations for captions.
360-Degree Intelligent Camera for Teams Meetings
SmartVision 60 is the first 360-degree, center-of-room intelligent camera, which can track the speaker as they’re moving. The camera will even have a people recognition feature coming soon.
This new SmartVision 60 feature will make virtual meetings feel much more real, as instead of the camera being fixed in one spot, the camera can move around to capture a whole team.