Pocket-lint is supported by its readers. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more. Pocket-lint – If you’ve come to this page, you’re probably trying to understand why, when you see yourself on a Zoom call, everything you see in your Zoom video is backwards, with things like text and clothing motifs appearing the wrong way round.

The same will happen in Google Meets and Microsoft Teams. So what’s going on and how would you fix this problem? First, you need to understand what’s going on. There’s no need to panic, because your video isn’t actually backwards. When those people on the other end of the call see you, you look exactly as you should.

That means that all text is the right way round to them. In essence, to fix this problem, you don’t have to do anything at all, because it’s only the preview of yourself in the video that you see that looks the wrong way round. That’s because mirroring is turned on by default when using Zoom and other services.

You can test this by reaching out to shake hands with yourself – mirroring will see both you and your video image reaching out with the same hand. That’s how you know mirroring is on. It’s also mirrored in Teams, Skype and Google Meets too. A mirrored image presents the view of yourself that you’re used to seeing. You see it every morning when you look in the mirror. When it comes to presenting it’s a lot easier for you to understand what’s going on, giving much more natural results thanks to mirroring.

Without mirroring in your preview window, when you reach left, you’ll see yourself reaching right and that’s confusing. You immediately think you’re doing it backwards, because it’s not what you expect to see and you try to correct it. It’s a phenomena that only really arises with video where you can see yourself, which is only something we’ve been dealing with for a couple of decades.

The important thing to realise is that the people on the other end of the line aren’t sitting in your seat, they are effectively sitting opposite you. When you see their view – the unmirrored view – that’s like an out of body experience. It’s something you never see, which is why mirroring is used. It’s not only limited to video conferencing, however, it’s just that video conferencing shows you what you’re doing while other situations don’t.

Think about a teacher standing in front of a class if they say “look to your left” all the student look left, but that’s actually to the teacher’s right, because they are standing opposite. You’ll have probably seen this in gym classes, where the instructor says “move to your left” and then steps to their left, which is your right. The good news is that if you’re showing text through the camera – perhaps showing something you’ve written – mirroring means that it looks backwards to you, while it looks normal to everyone else on the video conference.

Just don’t write anything backwards, because it will then be backwards. Zoom, Skype, Teams, Google Meet all show you this mirrored view, but everything for the viewers is exactly as it should be, so don’t change anything, don’t write things backwards, don’t print things backwards – instead, just stop thinking about it, because you’ll tie yourself in knots.

Zoom is currently the only platform that will let you turn off mirroring. If you’re finding it all too confusing – perhaps if you spend a lot of time presenting text like an online tutor – then you can turn off mirroring in the video settings. Mirroring is really common on selfie cameras. Again, they’re presenting a view that you don’t usually see, i.

You can test this for yourself with the handshake test we mentioned above. If you reach to shake hands with your image, a mirrored image sees you both raising your hand on the same side, so you can’t shake hands, as it were. There’s usually an option in smartphones to save either the mirrored image that you see in the preview, or a flipped version which is what a person standing opposite you would have seen.

Again, it plays havoc with writing on clothing, where brands are backwards if you save the mirrored image, which many people do. It raises a much larger philosophical question of who selfies are taken for: if you think the mirrored version is the right one, you’re taking them for yourself; if you think the flipped image is correct, you’re taking them for someone else.

Are you a narcissistic selfie taker? Again, don’t think about it too much, because it will tie your head in knots – but if you find your selfies are always “backwards”, check the camera settings on your phone and you can probably change it to get the result you want.

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The mirror effect at Zoom is what it sounds like. You can see your camera rotate automatically during conference calls if you use Zoom. The zoom camera, mirroring your movements, will flip as you see yourself while you are in a conference call. If you do this, your text will appear as backwards as possible. Shalini is a confident writer who exhibits the ability to work in any situation with a good level of concentration.

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Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. The video settings window will appear when you click on them. You can mirror my video so that your meeting shows you any background or text that it has, for reverse mirror my video causes any background or text that you are showing to the meeting, to be reversed as well, for you. In other words, you will have a harder time keeping up with everything on the screen. Thanks to Zoom settings, it is possible to disable this feature.

 

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This makes my face look bigger on one side and is cause of constant embarrassment. Zoom and Skype have toggle button to switch how other may be seeing you. Please share how I can change how others are viewing my video. I believe this is a basic function and should be there somewhere.

View best response. Chris Webb The issue is that if you have a background image behind you with letters, they will be reversed. Microsoft is introducing Mirror my video feature which provides user the option to un-mirror their video and thereby have the same view as the other users s in the meeting. Standard release timeline : begin rollout in mid-November and expected to be complete by late January.

You can check the roadmap of this feature at: Microsoft Teams: Mirror my video. This is the exact opposite of what they’re asking for. They don’t want anyone including themselves to see them un-mirrored, they want everyone to see them mirrored. If it’s your background photo you are working with I found a way to flip the picture in a photo edit app. If you have a photo edit app open your background pic in that app and go to edit. The flip will give you a mirror image with the words spelled backwards.

I then loaded that as a background on Team Meeting Video and when I used it it flipped again so that the words are in the right direction. This is a way to at least fix a background pic for your Team Meeting background. I look like I’m recovering from a stroke out here on these work calls in Teams deeeeeeeeeee.

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Chris Webb. Recently Teams introduced option to un-mirror their view and thereby see text correctly. The default will be Mirror my video to on i. To benefit from the un-mirrored view, users will have to set the toggle to Off. You can check the roadmap of this feature at: Microsoft Teams: Mirror my video Please consider giving a Like if my post helped you in any way.

Most camera drivers have a mirror feature you can turn on to accomplish this. Otherwise you can always run this through something like snapcam or OBS virtual cam driver to reverse your video and put it back into teams via the obs virtual cam. Will this be part of a Microsoft Update or do you have to upload the feature yourself?

In my case, I can only access the device setting “Mirror my video” button while in a meeting. I am using using an external USB camera. If I have not joined a meeting this option is not showing. I hope this helps. It is a fairly new feature and if it’s not available what I did was take the back ground and save it in a photo edit app and I was able to flip it there and then save it.

I do find it odd, what was confusing me, is that when I view the photo or background it is reverse of what other’s in the meeting see. Great suggestion. This worked for me. I don’t see the mirror-my-video option on my subscribed account. Don’t know why. I also don’t see the mirror-my-video option on my subscribed account. He suggested using an photo editor to flip the background image.

That worked for me. Like a few others, I also don’t see the mirror-my-video option on my subscribed account. Education Microsoft in education Office for students Office for schools Deals for students and parents Microsoft Azure in education.