[HN Gopher] 2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing
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       2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing
        
       Author : ColinWright
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-01-10 15:17 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
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       | 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
        
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