Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

As someone else mentioned, they are finally doing some more with their purchase of Screen Hero most likely.<p>However, one major feature that Screen Hero had that I don&#x27;t _THINK_ this new screen sharing built in Slack has, is the ability for the other person to control the mouse&#x2F;keyboard on your screen. I could be wrong, but if that is the case it&#x27;s a huge feature missing. That was one of my favorite things that Screen Hero had, being able to click for the other person or type while they were screen sharing to help them out on a task, if needed. If it&#x27;s not in there for this release, I hope it gets added soon.

Still no linux support for video and now no linux support for screen sharing. Here&#x27;s to hoping Google ramps up whatever Slack competitor they&#x27;re trying to roll hangouts into.

I see mentions of Screen Hero in a way that makes it sound like it&#x27;s dead, but my team still uses SH daily (via Slack&#x27;s `&#x2F;hero` command). It&#x27;s easily the best _remote pairing_ tool that I&#x27;ve found.<p>This new Slack feature seems like something different, for presenting content to everyone on a call, not for collaborating on code.

I worry that this could cause Slack to use a lot of memory.

Can&#x27;t believe it took them 2.5 years integrate ScreenHero.

It says you can only share your entire screen. That&#x27;s fine from a laptop, but if you have a 4k&#x2F;5k display sharing to people with laptops, wouldn&#x27;t the text be unreadable? Sharing just a single window is the standard solution here.

I always wonder if people would be interested in a small SAAS providing a terminal demonstration and sharing service with web and terminal client. Users could on one hand share step-by-step demos for common tasks on the terminal (say &quot;Let&#x27;s build $foobar on Ubuntu 16.04 optimized for the following infrastructure&quot;) similar to asciinema.org and on the other hand share there terminal <i>read-only</i> to demonstrate live-debugging or development operations.<p>Obviously this is already possible using a setup involving tmux and ssh (or pixel-screen sharing via Slack), but maybe a streamlined service that has both a powerful terminal and web-client would be an interesting addition to some documentation-heavy workflows or remote debugging sessions. There is also shellshare.net, which is also a nice little project.

Can someone explain why slack web app always turns my MacBook video indicator light on when I&#x27;m on a call even when I&#x27;m not sharing video? I don&#x27;t like them accessing the camera unless I actual want to share video.

I&#x27;m curious. I&#x27;ve used Screen Hero, Webex, Google Hangouts, and GotoMeeting extensively.<p>People evoke a lot of love for Screen Hero and I can never figure out why. Video quality is pretty awful and pixellated.<p>I don&#x27;t see a single feature in Screen Hero that isn&#x27;t in the other ones and the other ones have many more features that I use.

We&#x27;re a Microsoft shop so we use Skype for Business, which seems to work well for talk&#x2F;IM&#x2F;screen sharing. Now we&#x27;re getting &quot;Teams&quot; to be slacker.<p>I&#x27;d be curious to hear how the Slack video&#x2F;screen sharing compares to Skype Business, after a rocky start it&#x27;s working pretty smoothly for us now.

I&#x27;m really surprised this took so long. Hipchat has had this available for a couple of years now.<p>If they aren&#x27;t adding the pairing features that made Screenhero so good (dual mouse pointers, dual control, resolution adjustment and scrollaround windowing) then what&#x27;s the value add?

Our team is equally parts remote and in-office and we&#x27;ve had so many issues with hangouts for our daily stand-ups. Not picking up audio, screen just stops sharing, links outright breaking for unknown reasons. We&#x27;re a slack house already and will be very likely switching to this after some internal testing to see how we like it.

So I&#x27;m glad they&#x27;re doing something with the purchase. I LOVE screenhero. But right now...holy crap this is bad. Really crude benchmarks but I&#x27;m seeing an ADDITIONAL ~3.5gb of ram usage when screensarhing via slack. Checkout screenshots here. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;harisamin&#x2F;status&#x2F;864908004176658433" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;harisamin&#x2F;status&#x2F;864908004176658433</a> I know its beta, plz help improve this. I love both products

Curious if anyone has an idea how the multi-mouse system worked. My guess is that on the screen being shared, a transparent full-screen window is overlaid that just draws in the second mouse and that when this proxy mouse is clicked the event gets simulated on the sharer&#x27;s side.<p>This effect was so cool and would love to see an open-source library that shows the effect over WebRTC. Curious if it&#x27;s anything more complicated than that and why it&#x27;s never been replicated by other packages.

I keep finding myself wanting to use slack more and more for customer calls. Generally the audio quality has been pretty great compared to Google Hangouts &#x2F; Uberconference &#x2F; Gotomeeting. Screensharing makes me want to use it more.<p>The only issue is that you can&#x27;t just invite any random person to a call, they already have to be within your slack organization. I wonder if they&#x27;ll end up pulling this out as a separate product.

Strikes me as a poor future when we use proprietary protocols on other peoples&#x27; servers to facilitate all of our communications.

On Windows 10 whenever I click the &quot;Start a call&quot; button it causes the entire slack app to become extremely blurry. Other apps do this too sometimes. It has something to do with how they are being rendered, maybe related to high-dpi support or something. I&#x27;ve tried disabling the high-dpi support and enabling compatibility mode but it doesn&#x27;t have any effect.<p>Even after I close the &quot;start a call&quot; dialog the blurriness persists. It doesn&#x27;t go back to normal until I restart Slack.<p>Any ideas what is going on? I can&#x27;t find any working fixes for this in Slack or any other apps where this also happens.<p>An interesting thing I noticed was that in Unity (game dev IDE) when I set the render method to anything but DX9 it causes this same blurriness. Only DX9 makes it render sharp. DX10, DX11, etc all cause the blurriness.<p>I just have a normal Windows 10 desktop, latest drivers &amp; updates, GTX 1080 GPU.

Do they use WebRTC and do they work in Firefox on Linux?

At the risk of being confrontational, is usable VoIP going to come at some point?<p>Not only do I systematically get dropped calls, but also enraging UI bugs, e.g.: interrupting calls from other apps (whatsapp, phone, google hangouts, etc.) fails to put the slack call on hold and renders the &quot;hang up&quot; button ineffective.

Slack finally integrates Screen Hero<p>FTFY

Isn&#x27;t slack videocalling in beta and still macOS only? I wish they&#x27;d finish implementing a feature [on all platforms] before moving onto other features.<p>As a team, we can&#x27;t really use videocalling until <i>the entire team</i> can use it. It&#x27;s really all-or-nothing.

No one else has mentioned zoom.us here. For my money, it&#x27;s easily the best of its kind for multi-person video chat. The UI could be made a bit easier to navigate, but beyond that, it&#x27;s a fantastically well-built piece of software.

This is great. I hope they&#x27;re able to stay on top of other things like cpu usage and general bug fixes while they add these new features. On OSX it hovers around 20% cpu while idle.

Have never been able to get Slack calls working behind our corporate proxy, gave up after many attempts, changing network settings, &quot;noproxy&quot; settings etc.

I try to use Slack voice as much as possible with my team but I find it quite unstable in terms of call quality with lots of dropped calls. Is this the case for others?

There goes Lync and Skype Pro down the drain...

OT: Do the video calls work on mobile?

we loved Screenhero too, but now switched to aws chime and find it even better (except for funky UI) because you can have multiple video calls and control presenters screen.

A shame this had priority over firefox support over a year.

Did this work also with the App?