[HN Gopher] 2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing ___________________________________________________________________ 2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing Author : ColinWright Score : 10 points Date : 2021-01-10 15:17 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.axios.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.axios.com) | rahkiin wrote: | getmibo.com is also working on a more interactive conferencing | system. It uses a combination of video calling and a 3d world to | spatially separate participants and adds new content like games | while keeping the value of seeing someones actual realtime face. | ColinWright wrote: | We used Gather.Town for a virtual conference, a substitute for an | event I've been running every November since 2010. It went really | well, capturing the unique aspect of my event quite well, and | mostly "just working". | | Not perfect, but it was pretty good, and people liked it. | | https://gather.town | ghaff wrote: | I'm not sure what the point is. I'm sure not interested in any | sort of VR teleconferencing and I don't really want Second Life | 2.0 either. I do think easier sharing of sketches and the like | might be interesting--although that tends to require some | commonality of hardware and whiteboards don't necessarily scale | down to iPad size very well. (Furthermore, just shared docs | actually serve a lot of the functions we thought we needed | whiteboards for pretty well.) | cblconfederate wrote: | The answer is gaming ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-01-10 23:01 UTC)