Facebook has now launched its own video conferencing app and dubbed it “Messenger Rooms” to serve its large base of loyal users, which also includes Instagram and WhatsApp. While it may sound like its new and next big thing to the uninitiated, it’s being billed as a marriage between Zoom and Houseparty.

Messenger Rooms not only takes Zoom’s unique features, it improves on them by avoiding the footsteps that directly landed Zoom in controversy. Now we know whose empire is really at stake.

Messenger Rooms is a tool to start and share virtual meetings with up to 50 people. Hosts can lock their virtual rooms or keep them open so that friends can join a meeting whenever they want. The rooms also allow hosts to remove participants in case of inappropriate behavior and report such cases.

One selling point that will draw many Zoom users to Messenger Rooms is that there are no time limits on your video conferences. Facebook’s blog post announcing the release of Messenger Rooms noted that “spending time together should be spontaneous, not forced.”