Facebook today announced that its Messenger app is now capable of performing group video calls. Only six participants can see one another, but as many as 50 people can still add voice to the chat and interact with emojis and GIFs. That makes Messenger’s video chat feature one of the lesser robust options in the industry, seeing as how Google Hangouts has a 25-person limit on video and Microsoft Skype has a 10-person limit. The addition of video chat follows an April update that first added group calling to Messenger. Prior to that add-on, Facebook’s app was only capable of making one-on-one audio calls.
The company is clearly interested in capturing both consumers and, with the recent launch of its Work software, office employees who do...
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