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Are there plans for remote control surfaces like iPad apps or web interfaces?

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Planned features include iPad app and web control surfaces that join the meeting, mirror the main UI layout, and control remotely via reverse proxy without CloudFlair tunnels.

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12:46build in those remote tools so it can fit into like a production that is like us produced around the world so eventually there'll be an ipad app a website where people can easily go through you would be able to join like a control surface and you can pull the same zoom feeds like in this virtual production app it'll set up and lay out exactly like the main actual machine that's

13:13doing your encodes but you'll be able to cut it and see those live feeds within it so it's pretty lightweight, but it just joins the meeting like everything else and then can send the commands remotely via reverse proxy. So no CloudFair tunnels and everything else that kind of has to happen today. That's awesome. And I know that the Zoom API has been getting

13:32a lot of updates lately. And I noticed that they, some time ago, not that long ago, they added some new talkback feature. Do you know any, have you heard anything about this new talkback feature in the API that allows you to, is it supposed to be like a comms solution? Is that something that you're working on with Core Video? I think it is a comm solution, but it's more like a last mile type of thing.

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