What's New

October 2020

Desktop and web app

Guests can now participate in chat conversations during meetings. 

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Lifesize Admin Console

We’ve made exporting your Past Meetings summary data easier. 

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September 2020

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The Raise Hands feature is now available for all Lifesize Icon systems as well as the Lifesize Room Controller app. 

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Get control over room system upgrades and select your preference in the admin console for upgrade timing – General Availability, Preview or Hotfix. 

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Lifesize for G Suite

The new Lifesize add-on for G Suite allows users to easily create, schedule, and join meetings from within Google Calendar.

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Lifesize Live Stream

Embed live streams directly in your website by copying the embed code from the admin console.

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August 2020

Lifesize Admin Console

Get more control over your accounts – choose whether permanent meetings can be created in the web, desktop and mobile apps.

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Desktop and web app

Native, augmented digital whiteboarding, powered by visual collaboration technology from Kaptivo, is now supported in the Lifesize desktop app, web app, and guest experience.

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We’ve made a new Crestron® control system module and associated source code available for use with Lifesize Icon 300, 500, and 700 room systems and Crestron room control solutions.

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July 2020

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Following the release of the Raise Hands feature for the Lifesize apps and guest experience, we’ve added it to Lifesize Icon 300, Icon 500, and Icon 700 room systems.

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Desktop and web app

Lifesize is verified as Citrix Ready, enabling enterprise customers who use Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops to include Lifesize video in their collaboration workflow.

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June 2020

Lifesize Admin Console

Easily merge accounts, and get more visibility into your live meetings and account details.

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Desktop and web app

Remote moderator controls let you moderate a meeting without joining as a participant, entering the in-call experience, or physically interacting with room system hardware.

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We’ve consolidated meeting settings and provided the ability to expire one-time meetings and reset the password for your Lifesize Icon systems.

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Lifesize Icon 300, 500, and 700 room systems now integrate natively with Alexa for Business from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support voice control.

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May 2020

Lifesize Admin Console

We've updated the Account Details section in Account Settings to display more information about your plan.

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April 2020

Desktop and web app

Meeting participants can now raise their hand within our desktop, web, and mobile apps, as well as our guest experience for Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge browsers.

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March 2020

Desktop and web app

We've updated the appearance of the desktop and web apps and made enhancements to make calling easier for everyone.

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Desktop and web app

Any admin or super user for your account now becomes a moderator automatically for any meeting they join. Additionally, meeting moderators can now lock and unlock meetings to manage access.

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Lifesize Admin Console

Manage your room systems more easily from the new Maintenance tab – view room system health status, reboot your system or reset to the original factory settings.

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Lifesize Record and Share

Admins and super users can now upload MP4 videos from other sources to develop a single, complete video library.

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February 2020

Desktop and web app

We've added support for up to 500 active participants in a meeting. 

Lifesize Guest Experience

We’ve launched an updated guest experience that makes it easier to use Lifesize to connect with people outside your organization.

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August 2019

June 2018

Mobile app

• Adds the ability to add a participant while in a call using the mobile app.
• Help files for the new mobile app are now available in 15 languages. 

May 2018

Mobile app

The Lifesize mobile app is now available and offers remote users more flexibility for joining meetings, enabling increased collaboration throughout your organization.

Lifesize Share

Lifesize Share is now available. Lifesize Share eliminates the clutter and delivers a truly wireless solution for sharing your media.

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April 2018

Desktop and web app

• Directory provisioning is now available for supported Cisco® devices.
• Support for far-end camera controls has been added in the Lifesize web and desktop apps.
• Support for Korean has been added.
• The new Lifesize Outlook Add-in has a completely new design with a simple, intuitive interface that is consistent with the new Lifesize web and desktop apps. Users can easily create and schedule meetings or instantly launch a Lifesize call directly from Outlook. The new Outlook Add-in automatically updates, reducing the burden on IT to manage rollouts of software updates. 

Admin console

Provides an enhancement to the admin console enabling more customization for Lifesize Phone HD. Personalize your Lifesize Phone HD home screen wallpaper, layout, buttons and names of your times zones.

March 2018

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• Version 3.6 includes several enhancements including remote pairing for Lifesize Icons, proxy setup capabilities and an adjustment to the default audio output for new Lifesize Icons. It also includes important fixes and resolves several bugs.

February 2018

Desktop and web app

Select Cisco® and Polycom® devices can register directly to the Lifesize service.

Admin console

Improvements in the admin console to the meeting maintenance feature, which automatically deletes inactive meetings. Additionally, to prevent unintentional deletion of inactive meetings, we added a new step prompting admins to verify changes to the expiry interval before saving. 

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November 2017

Admin console

Includes an automatic cleanup feature for inactive meetings. In the admin console, you will notice a new label next to your meetings that are expiring soon – making it easy for you to check status at a glance.

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Version 3.5 includes improvements to ending a call in an escalated call and in a call in a virtual meeting room. It also includes important fixes and resolves several bugs. 

September 2017

Desktop and web app

We are excited to announce the full release of the Lifesize web and desktop apps.

August 2017

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Version 3.4 release includes several enhancements for Lifesize Icon conference room systems. Moderator controls have been improved so that moderators can end the call for anyone, and participants can only end the call for themselves. On Lifesize Phone HD and Phone, 2nd Generation, you can now easily see if a system is in Do Not Disturb mode. The release also includes important fixes for stability and performance.

June 2017

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Version 3.3 includes enhancements where Lifesize Icons that are moderator muted are in a locked mute state until the moderator unmutes the participant and the improved user interface shows that the moderator has issued a Mute All. Added support for NEC PBX systems, AZERTY keyboard support for customers in France, and security improvements were made to make calls more secure.