{"id":24075,"date":"2020-04-24T20:36:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T03:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24075"},"modified":"2020-04-24T20:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T03:36:36","slug":"facebook-launched-a-new-live-video-conferencing-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24075","title":{"rendered":"Facebook launched a new live video conferencing service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook launched a new live video conferencing service on Friday, as millions of people remain confined to their homes amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Messenger Rooms service lets up to 50 users participate in a video chat at once, a feature similar to Zoom and Houseparty, two apps that have exploded in popularity over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVideo presence isn\u2019t just about calling someone,\u201d Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a livestream on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is starting to be a fundamental building block of a private social platform with lots of new use cases,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Messenger Rooms will be free and won\u2019t have a time limit, the social media giant announced.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom can accommodate up to 1,000 people in each call but limits calls to 40 minutes without a paid subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook also announced Friday that is it doubling the capacity of video calls on WhatsApp from four to eight participants and incorporating video calls into Facebook Dating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook launched a new live video&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24076,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions\/24076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}