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One of the main features that sets Zoom apart from its competitors is its ability to let users change their backgrounds while video chatting with their coworkers and friends. Animal-lovers can display ...

Zoom's new "Avatars" filter can turn you into a virtual animal during meetings. Your Zoom animal avatar will smile, move their head, and blink whenever you do. To turn on Zoom's animal filter, open ...

Zoom is adding new avatars that will allow you to appear in conference calls as one of your favorite barnyard friends. Like Apple’s Animoji, you can disguise your appearance as a bunny, dog, raccoon, ...

Last year, the story of a lawyer turning up to a hearing on a Zoom call with a cat filter went viral. It was hilarious and absurd. But the folks at Zoom seem to have liked it so much, they’re ...

If you want to host a unique Zoom meeting experience, trying taking a virtual field trip. You can get animals like llamas and goats to join your calls, and it's fairly inexpensive if you split the ...