Voice and video

In Team Connect, talking is as simple as walking up to someone. This guide explains how proximity voice works, how to have a private conversation at your workstation and how to control your microphone, camera and devices.

Proximity voice

• When you enter the office, proximity conversation is already on, but your microphone starts muted and so does your camera.
• When you get close to someone, you connect: you hear them, and they hear you as soon as your microphone is on.
• The range is the same for everyone, a few steps around your character. Walls and closed doors block sound, and locked rooms isolate the people inside.
• You keep hearing your teammates even while muted.

Microphone and camera

The controls are in the bottom bar:

1. Click Unmute microphone to talk and Mute microphone to go quiet.
2. Click Enable camera to show your video and Disable camera to turn it off. Your video shows in a bubble above your character for the people in the conversation with you.
3. To switch devices, click the small arrow next to the button (Select microphone or Select camera) and pick one from the list.

While a conversation is active, the bar shows the Conversation participants.

Private conversation at a workstation

When a workstation's owner is at it, the workstation becomes a private conversation space:

• People at the workstation (the chair and the space right around it) only hear and see the others there, at full volume. People walking by hear nothing.
• A colored outline on the floor links the people in the conversation. Only participants see it.
• If only one person is at the workstation, you join the conversation right away.
• If two or more are already talking, a Private conversation notice shows up with an Ask to join button. Any participant can Accept or Decline. If nobody answers within about 30 seconds, you see Nobody answered. and can Ask again.
• To give up on a request or leave the conversation, just step away from the workstation. When the owner leaves, the conversation ends.

Workstations with no owner, or whose owner is not there, work like the rest of the office.

Direct calls

To talk to someone who is far away:

1. In the people list, click ⋯ next to the name and choose Call. You can also click the person on the map and use the call button.
2. They get a Conversation invite and choose Enter or Decline.
3. During the call, use Invite in the people list to bring someone else in.
4. Click End call in the bottom bar to leave.

During a call your status shows as busy and goes back to normal when you leave.

Share your screen

Screen sharing is part of Meet meetings, with the Share screen button. See Meetings.

Office sounds

Besides voices, the office has its own sounds. In the Office menu, at the top of the sidebar, you turn each group on or off and set its volume:

• Ambient: footsteps, doors, people sitting down and locks, heard according to distance and walls, just like voices;
• Actions: interface cues, such as microphone, camera, calls and messages.