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Google is reportedly working on a new feature for the desktop version of Hangouts that will make chatting a much better experience for users. This new feature is called “Ultra Violet” and will allow you to set up floating conversations that you can move around your screen, as opposed to just having minimized tabs like we do now.
The circles float around like Facebook’s famous “chat heads” and expand into a full conversation when clicked. Whenever a new conversation starts, another chat head is added to the row below the current conversations, which makes it easy to keep track of which conversations are currently active.
Ultra Violet is in a pretty experimental stage, relying on APIs that are only available in Chrome’s dev channel release. Being in such an early phase also means there are tons of bugs that need to be squashed before we see anything released to the public. There’s no word on if the feature would come to mobile devices, or if it will finally allow Hangouts to sync text messages, but we should hear more about it in the future.
source: Android Police
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