The pandemic shifted social interactions online, leading to the rise of PowerPoint parties where people gather to present on various topics for fun. These parties, initially starting as 'drink, talk, and learn' gatherings in Canada in 2012, gained popularity during COVID-19 lockdowns, especially among the younger generation. Harvard students were already participating in these events in 2018. The ease of screen-sharing on platforms like Zoom and Google Meet made it a convenient alternative to traditional in-person hangouts.
Google Meet is a video communication service developed by Google. It is one of two apps that constitute the replacement for Google Hangouts, the other being Google Chat. It replaced the consumer-facing Google Duo on November 1, 2022, with the Duo mobile app being renamed Meet and the original Meet app set to be phased out.In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google announced Meet was to be made available to all users, not just Google Workspace users, in which it previously was. The use of Meet grew by a factor of 30 between January and April 2020, with 100 million users a day accessing Meet, compared to 200 million daily users for Zoom as of the last week of April 2020.
PowerPoint karaoke, also known as battledecks or battle decks, is an improvisational activity in which a participant must deliver a presentation based on a set of slides that they have never seen before. Its name is derived from Microsoft PowerPoint, a popular presentation software, and karaoke, an activity in which a performer sings along with a pre-recorded backing track (although there is usually no music or singing involved in PowerPoint karaoke). The effect is intended to be comical, and PowerPoint karaoke can be considered a form of improvisational theatre, or a type of Theatresports game.The presentation can either be a real slideshow on an arcane topic, or a set of real slides from different presentations that are nonsensical when assembled together, or slides that are nonsensical on their own (in some cases created by randomly downloading images from the internet and adding unrelated text). In some cases, the presenter is given a theme beforehand that they must attempt to tie all the slides into.
PowerPoint is a presentation software program by Microsoft Corporation.PowerPoint, Power Point, or Powerpoint may also refer to the following:Slide shows in generalAC power plugs and socketsPower Points, in the Pokémon series of cards and video gamesMagic point, in role playing gamesPowerPoint Ministries, the radio and television ministry of Prestonwood Baptist Church and Senior Pastor Jack Graham
Zoom has launched Zoom Workplace, a collaborative platform that integrates AI tools such as the AI virtual assistant and features like meeting summarization. The platform offers seamless integration with existing technologies and third-party apps like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Zoom Workplace's AI Companion assists with meeting preparation, summarization, and post-call recaps, with enhancements like AI portrait lighting and customizable backgrounds. The platform includes business services for customer interaction and incorporates AI for sales, marketing, and customer service. The platform is cost-free for paying subscribers, starting at $15.99 per month.
Zoom (stylized as zoom), also called Zoom Meetings, is a proprietary videotelephony software program developed by Zoom Video Communications. The free plan allows up to 100 concurrent participants, with a 40-minute time restriction. Users have the option to upgrade by subscribing to a paid plan, the highest of which supports up to 1,000 concurrent participants for meetings lasting up to 30 hours.
Google Meet has launched a new feature called "Switch here" that allows users to seamlessly transfer active calls between their computer and smartphone without interruption. This feature is designed to make it easier for users to move between devices during meetings without having to hang up and rejoin the call. The tool is available for both personal Google accounts and Workspace customers, accessible by clicking the blue Switch here button while on a call. The feature aims to enhance flexibility and productivity for users attending meetings from various locations and devices.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for about $14 million three months after it appeared. This was Microsoft's first significant acquisition, and Microsoft set up a new business unit for PowerPoint in Silicon Valley where Forethought had been located.PowerPoint became a component of the Microsoft Office suite, first offered in 1989 for Macintosh and in 1990 for Windows, which bundled several Microsoft apps. Beginning with PowerPoint 4.0 (1994), PowerPoint was integrated into Microsoft Office development, and adopted shared common components and a converged user interface.PowerPoint's market share was very small at first, prior to introducing a version for Microsoft Windows, but grew rapidly with the growth of Windows and of Office.: 402–404 Since the late 1990s, PowerPoint's worldwide market share of presentation software has been estimated at 95 percent.PowerPoint was originally designed to provide visuals for group presentations within business organizations, but has come to be widely used in other communication situations in business and beyond. The wider use led to the development of the PowerPoint presentation as a new form of communication, with strong reactions including advice that it should be used less, should be used differently, or should be used better.The first PowerPoint version (Macintosh 1987) was used to produce overhead transparencies, the second (Macintosh 1988, Windows 1990) could also produce color 35 mm slides. The third version (Windows and Macintosh 1992) introduced video output of virtual slideshows to digital projectors, which would over time replace physical transparencies and slides. A dozen major versions since then have added additional features and modes of operation and have made PowerPoint available beyond Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, adding versions for iOS, Android, and web access.
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