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Facebook released free-to-use Messenger Rooms, allowing multiple people to do video chat in a single array of windows at one time. Using this platform is relatively simple if all users already have a ...

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As Zoom becomes synonymous with group video chat, Facebook announced a number of different options to connect friends remotely, including a new feature: Messenger Rooms. Like Zoom, as well as a new ...

Facebook is preparing to broadly launch a free videoconferencing product called Messenger Rooms — which will allow people to connect whether they use one of the social giant’s apps or not, CEO Mark ...

Facebook’s new video-conferencing service debuted in the U.S., Mexico and Canada on Thursday, with the rest of the world set to get the new feature next week. With the coronavirus pandemic forcing the ...

Facebook’s video chat feature Messenger Rooms is now available to use, but is it secure and private? Facebook has just made its new video chat feature Messenger Rooms available to use, starting in ...

It's a socially distant world, but that doesn't mean we can't be social. Video chatting apps exploded in popularity in 2020 as the world tries to sit the coronavirus pandemic out in the comfort of ...

Facebook just announced 50-person video chatrooms called Messenger Rooms. The new Messenger Rooms have some features in common with other video calling apps, like Zoom and Houseparty. The company says ...

From virtual cocktail hours to online classrooms, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned Zoom into everyone’s go-to social network. Now Facebook wants to kick the video-conferencing interloper off its turf.

Teen app sensation Houseparty will get some competition as Facebook Messenger is launching its own split-screen group video chat feature. Six users can appear in split-screen at the time and don ...