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What about a shared whiteboard, though? That's the one thing I'm missing at the moment. Using one of those with a couple of nice graphics tablets would be great

What about a shared whiteboard, though? That's the one thing I'm missing at the moment. Using one of those with a couple of nice graphics tablets would be great.

macintux 9y ago
I have lamented the lack of a good online whiteboard experience for decades now. I think the real problem is that for a proper whiteboard, we need obscenely large and high-resolution displays. Analog is much better than digital in this particular.
- pfranz 9y ago
  SmoothDraw[1] is what Kahn Academy uses, but it lacks those features you mention. Milton[2] is an open source stroke based application, so you get infinite canvas and infinite zoom. Neither are network-based though and it's tough to beat a physical whiteboard. [1] http://www.smoothdraw.com/sd http://www.smoothdraw.com/sd [2] https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton
- trevyn 9y ago
  Haven't tried it, but the Google Jamboard looks pretty nice.
- maxxxxx 9y ago
  Whiteboarding is one of the biggest problems working with offshore devs. I am kind of surprised that after all these years there still is nothing out there that works as well as a physical whiteboard.
- seanp2k2 9y ago
  You might be interested in https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/ https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/ though I doubt your company would pay for each of you to have one at home. It's more of an office to office type of thing, I think.
  - macintux 9y ago
    Not nearly big enough, but a step in the right direction.
- bbrks 9y ago
  A little bit "out there" but I've been impressed with 'Dry Erase: Infinite VR Whiteboard'[0]. You get far more space to play with in a virtual environment than you can get on a screen. This would be killer if it supported multiple users over the internet, which is possibly being considered by the dev.[1] [0] http://store.steampowered.com/app/585040/Dry_Erase_Infinite_VR_Whiteboard/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/585040/Dry_Erase_Infinite_... [1] https://steamcommunity.com/app/585040/discussions/0/1458455461473643115/ https://steamcommunity.com/app/585040/discussions/0/14584554...
goerz 9y ago
It's very bare-bones, but the solution that works most reliably for me is still https://awwapp.com https://awwapp.com (has been around for ages) That still leaves a lot of room for improvement. I'd love to see something that has a native iOS app with great Pencil support, as well as clients for other platforms (anything that people tend to use with a pen, like MS Surface), and also a web-app as a fall-back, at least read-only. Low-latency is a must. There are a bunch of solutions I've tried, but most take something like 20 seconds for things to shop up on all the clients (or longer, like a shared One-Note notebook). That just doesn't work for a video conference.

What about a shared whiteboard, though? That's the one thing I'm missing at the moment. Using one of those with a couple of nice graphics tablets would be great.

macintux 9y ago

I have lamented the lack of a good online whiteboard experience for decades now. I think the real problem is that for a proper whiteboard, we need obscenely large and high-resolution displays. Analog is much better than digital in this particular.

pfranz 9y ago
SmoothDraw[1] is what Kahn Academy uses, but it lacks those features you mention. Milton[2] is an open source stroke based application, so you get infinite canvas and infinite zoom. Neither are network-based though and it's tough to beat a physical whiteboard. [1] http://www.smoothdraw.com/sd http://www.smoothdraw.com/sd [2] https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton
trevyn 9y ago
Haven't tried it, but the Google Jamboard looks pretty nice.
maxxxxx 9y ago
Whiteboarding is one of the biggest problems working with offshore devs. I am kind of surprised that after all these years there still is nothing out there that works as well as a physical whiteboard.
seanp2k2 9y ago
You might be interested in https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/ https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/ though I doubt your company would pay for each of you to have one at home. It's more of an office to office type of thing, I think.
- macintux 9y ago
  Not nearly big enough, but a step in the right direction.
bbrks 9y ago
A little bit "out there" but I've been impressed with 'Dry Erase: Infinite VR Whiteboard'[0]. You get far more space to play with in a virtual environment than you can get on a screen. This would be killer if it supported multiple users over the internet, which is possibly being considered by the dev.[1] [0] http://store.steampowered.com/app/585040/Dry_Erase_Infinite_VR_Whiteboard/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/585040/Dry_Erase_Infinite_... [1] https://steamcommunity.com/app/585040/discussions/0/1458455461473643115/ https://steamcommunity.com/app/585040/discussions/0/14584554...

goerz 9y ago

It's very bare-bones, but the solution that works most reliably for me is still https://awwapp.com https://awwapp.com (has been around for ages) That still leaves a lot of room for improvement. I'd love to see something that has a native iOS app with great Pencil support, as well as clients for other platforms (anything that people tend to use with a pen, like MS Surface), and also a web-app as a fall-back, at least read-only. Low-latency is a must. There are a bunch of solutions I've tried, but most take something like 20 seconds for things to shop up on all the clients (or longer, like a shared One-Note notebook). That just doesn't work for a video conference.