The Photo Booth app lets you take both stills and video, and apply the same filters as you would during a video call.
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However, you can expand YouTube videos to full screen. The Portal’s browser is an ok workaround - it even has an incognito mode - and something you don’t get on other smart displays, but the experience isn’t the best. The same goes for other sites such as YouTube and ESPN. In this way, you can view your Facebook feed, but it’s not nearly as easy to navigate as it is on a laptop or through a dedicated mobile app. The Portal comes with 18 bookmarked webpages, which include Yelp, ESPN, Twitch, Instagram, Google, YouTube, and, of course, Facebook. You can add functionality to the Portal by installing apps and websites currently, there are only 12 apps available, including Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora, FB Gaming, ABC News Live, Food Network, Story Time, and a web browser. (Image credit: Future) Facebook Portal: Apps My wife and I spent a few minutes gawking at the virtual cats on our heads.Īs of October 2020, Facebook has also added Zoom, and expects to add more web-conferencing apps (BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, WebEx) to the Portal at some point. One fun aspect of video calls via the Portal are all the filters you can apply not just to yourself, but to the other people on the call. While the Portal’s camera-tracking can be a bit sluggish - there’s a delay of about a second from the time you move to the time the camera shifts - it was neat to watch it lock on to me, eventually. Despite my being in a somewhat dark room, the Portal’s camera produced a bright, colorful image. Those two services collectively account for roughly 40 percent of the world’s population, so there’s a good chance you’ll find someone you know.Īs I have accounts with both services, I made calls via Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, and both came through sharp and clear.
Being the monolithic social networking platform that it is, the Portal lets you make calls not just to Facebook Messenger contacts, but also to people on WhatsApp, which Facebook owns.
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