With its newest release, users entering a ROOM meeting venue will find a small Tip popup overlay that appears briefly - displaying simple navigation controls. In reality, it only lists mouse actions (as seen below).
The left/right mouse arrows can also be used to pan around the table, instead of using the mouse's side-to-side version.
It can be dismissed from view at any time and subsequently accessed at will via the More options ("...") icon at the screen's bottom (right hand side).
Clicking on the More Options icon will prompt the list to appear, from which you can select it from the top of the list. It will then remain onscreen until you close it.
Additional commands (not shown on the Tip popup) for Perspective, Movement and 3D object Interactions.
Perspective section
Look around is arguably the most commonly used tool, allowing a user to "glance" around the room, usually to glance at a given speaker. Since it really just moves your virtual room camera, it's often combined with the zoom function to change your perspective. As an alternative to using your mouse, you can navigate equally well (if not faster) by simply using the left or right arrow keys on your keyboard to glance around the meeting table.
Zoom in/out by using your mouse's wheel is a quick way of changing your virtual camera's distance/field of view, and as mentioned above, is often used in tandem with the Look Around feature. Its use is also valuable when using the Walk (Get up from Chair) feature, as you stroll around the venue, Looking Around and occasionally zooming.
See All Participants: From time to time you may need to see all participants at the same time. Upon pressing the "F" key, all the participants' 3D cutouts will be replaced with small, 2D head shots displayed in circles on your screen, not unlike your own personal head shot during meetings.
This is a great way of working around limited bandwidth issues that may be slowing down your 3D meeting, to restore a more fluid, real-time experience.
The previously mentioned Walk (Get up from Chair) tool is one of many key features that distinguishes ROOM from conventional 2D meeting apps in the communications market. When you press the "Q" key (and move around with your keyboard's arrow keys), you'll experience an unfettered degree of freedom to make it easy to explore your 3D environment and even go to other nearby attendees that may be spread around the room. Likewise, you can join a "break-out" that often lies across the room in larger venues, or you might choose to explore the many spaces and floors, when available. Toggle the "Q" key again or click on an available chair to get back to a meeting's gathering.
Move Through Rooms is the label given to the keyboard keys because they enable any user that already pressed the "Q" key, as previously mentioned. They will not enable out-of-seat movement if the "Q" key is not pressed first. In fact, the arrow keys' default function is to rotate your virtual camera, an especially convenient feature if you're sitting at a table because you never lose you perfect field of view/perspective that sometimes occurs when you're panning around manually.
Press SHIFT + Move to run is somewhat less intuitive a description than the rest listed here, but it simply amounts to keeping the SHIFT key down while using the keyboard arrows once you've already placed yourself in Walk mode by clicking on the "Q" key. The speed difference will truly make you understand why we used "run" as a descriptor!
Sit Down is simply what is suggested: returning to a seat - any available seat of your choice, since it need not be your original seat. Once you hover over any empty seat with your mouse, you'll see a yellow outline emerge, prompting you that the seat is now "locked" and ready for you to target it for immediate use. It's the fastest way to return from Walking or Running mode.
Focus Participant/yourself requires a bit of explaining for first-time users, but will become second nature after you make use of it just once.
Since it's impossible to keep every participant within your camera's field of view at once (especially if you're sitting at a large table with many attendees), ROOM developed a creative solution to be able to still view everyone simultaneously. The idea is that any participants that are "cut off" by your virtual camera's field of view will have a small video of their head appear high up on the screen, so you can see anyone that is talking at any given time. These "head videos" will update in real-time (swapping with the newly "cut-off" avatars) as you rotate your view, glancing around the table. The video below demonstrates you how this works.
You'll also notice that the user in the video was clicking on the "Head videos" above to instantly face a specific speaker. This is an additional technique to keep your immersion in the meeting feeling natural.
If you happen to click on your own "Head video", it will keep the camera in place and open up a special overlay to open, allowing you to easy modify your avatar's look in real-time. When you're done you simply need to click on the "X" button to get rid of the popup overlay.
Incidentally, if you click on a participant that is in your field of view, your virtual camera will immediately make a slight adjustment, placing that person at the center of your screen, flanked by his/her nearby participants. This is known as focusing on a seated person. More on interactivity, below.
Focus Screen refers to clicking on either a wall-mounted screen, a standing whiteboard or (when available) a tablet directly before you on the meeting table. Unlike 2D online meeting apps, this is the 3D/real life equivalent of viewing a shared screen. Some of these items may have a power button ("on" button) icon which needs to be selected in order to activate the display.
If you would like to share your screen with the rest of the meeting's attendees, start by clicking on the Screen Sharing icon next to the camera icon, at the bottom of your computer monitor/screen, to the immediate right of the microphone and camera toggle icons.
A small screen appears from which you can select a given screen sharing type - a particular browser window, your computer's local screen or any views of local apps you may already have open.
Ordinarily, once a participant shares his/her screen, the rest of the participants can simply change (pan) their virtual camera's view enough to see and click on one of the above-mentioned virtual devices, which will then center and zoom in automatically as your "focused subject". Some devices require that these viewing participants also activate them by clicking on the previously-mentioned "power/on" button at the upper right.
The person sharing can deactivate his/her screen sharing at any time by clicking on the button labeled "Stop sharing", which will appear as a persistent overlay over whatever content is being shared from his/her screen. No other participants will be able to see this message.
Interact with Objects concerns the focusing of a selectable object, device, or even an attendee. As previously discussed you can click on any participant's "Head video" or video avatar to automatically prompt your virtual camera's framing to ensure that your chosen participant is in center frame. Interacting with 3D monitor and desktop tablets will enable the viewing of any screen-shared materials. Likewise, there are multiple 3D object that can be manipulated with your mouse, from lamps to doors to decorative accessories.
Other in-meeting tools
Taking a screenshot is invaluable for meeting participants to keep a record of say, a screen-shared document or another compelling event that needs to be shared (such as reporting a bug or recommending a feature), and will no doubt continue to be useful in the world of 3D meetings, as well. The procedure is simply to Press the F8 key on your PC or the fn + F8 on a Mac (iOS availability to be announced when available) to copy your screen's current view to your clipboard.
Use Tools while Walking refers to the option to operate key tools (microphone, video, etc.) at your screen's bottom tray while in walking mode. By pressing the "R" key, you will be returned to the dragging mode (that is usually only available to seated users) and able to engage these various tools.
Invite Others to Meeting - If the current meeting venue has not reached its maximum capacity, then any participant can invite additional guests by accessing the small head icon at the screen's bottom tray, to the right of the chat icon.
The copy (invitation) link is prominently displayed as a dedicated button at the screen's bottom.
Once you click on it a message will briefly appear at the screen's top right to verify your successful action.
Lastly, there is one more way of inviting guests to an ongoing meeting. It involves the use of the familiar More Options (...) list, from where you can select Participants, prompting a popup to appear...
... from which you can then access a Copy link button at the bottom of the Participants popup.
Reminder popups indicating approaching meeting time limits (for the free, Basic Plan) will display as a courtesy to enable the management/final wrap up...
... before the time threshold arrives.
To learn more about in-meetings' tool tray use, please refer to this tutorial article's link:
Finding Your Way Around (Interaction, Navigation & Tools)