Introducing the Multi-Stream Experience in Microsoft Teams
Enabling remote users to have a flexible, curated, and clear meeting experience is critical to ensuring they have engaging and productive meetings. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Multi-Stream (Beta) for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows — a feature designed to give remote participants a clearer, customizable view of what’s happening in the meeting room.
In this article, we’ll explore what Multi-Stream is, the options it offers remote participants, and how the experience will continue to evolve. Be sure to also check out our video below on the feature.
What is Multi-Stream?
At its core, Multi-Stream means that Logitech video bars will send multiple separate video streams to Microsoft Teams. This means that Microsoft Teams can now use those separate streams to provide more options and more control to remote participants for how they view the meeting.
With Multi-Stream, the four most recent speakers in a meeting room each get their own tile, alongside a fifth stream showing the full-room view. Logitech is the first and only OEM to deliver a total of five video streams from a video bar. This allows remote participants to see both individual speakers and the entire room at the same time. Additionally, remote participants can toggle the room view on and off; an example of how a separate stream of the room allows for this toggle functionality.
As an additional viewing option, administrators can enable Sub-Tiling, a feature within Logitech's RightSight 2 functionality. Sub-tiling allows more than four individuals to be represented in separate tiles by dynamically dividing the original four tiles into smaller sections, ensuring every in-room participant has their own dedicated space on the screen.
Try It Today
This is just the beginning of what Multi-Stream will offer remote participants. Soon, it will support name tags in Microsoft Teams, allowing the names of in-room participants to appear on their individual tiles—another feature made possible by Multi-Stream.
Multi-Stream (Beta) is currently available for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows with Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini as part of our CollabOS 1.14 release. Be sure to check out this article for more information on setup.