Airtame has launched its latest Share to Call feature, making it easier for in-person participants to share their screens during hybrid meetings.

Made available through its hybrid conferencing platform, the Share to Call feature allows any person in the meeting room to instantly share their screen into a Zoom or Teams call without the hassle of joining the call from their personal device.

“Having to join a call with your own device just to share your screen, even though you’re in the room in which a meeting is already taking place, is a major pain point that the industry has adopted and has yet to change in a way that is truly easy and intuitive for the end-user,” Airtame chief executive officer Susanne Lund says.

“With Airtame Share to Call, any meeting participant within the room can share content instantly rather than having to go through the unnecessary process of logging in to screen share. This new feature makes hybrid meetings truly equitable because it makes it just as easy for in-person meeting participants to share their screens as it is for remote participants.”

In addition to making screen sharing faster and easier during hybrid meetings, Share to Call eliminates audio feedback when users forget to mute before joining a call to share. It also saves battery power since the user’s computer doesn’t have to use its resources to run a conference call.

It also saves bandwidth on the local network as in-person participants no longer have to load all call contents on their devices.

The process involves one meeting participant starting the call as a ‘room host’ using Airtame Hub. A second user in the meeting room can then launch the Airtame application, select the room/device and click “share screen.” A pin code then appears on the screen to verify that the user is in the room and permitted to share. The sharing user can select whether they’d like to share their entire screen, or a specific window.

Once shared, the user’s screen is visible both locally in the meeting room and for remote participants using Microsoft Teams or Zoom. For local participants, it is possible to screen share through the Airtame desktop app with Miracast, AirPlay and Google Cast compatibility coming soon.

Share to Call is now available on the Airtame Hybrid offering so long as device firmware is updated to version 5.2 and the Airtame app is updated to version 4.6.3. The Airtame Hybrid offering consists of both hardware and software.

Airtame Rooms integrates with multiple services, enabling flexibility and ease. Airtame Hub enables the premiere Airtame experience for screen sharing, digital signage and seamless hybrid conferencing.