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If you must have stand up meetings, why not have them over e.g. chat or Slack or IRC or the like? That way you get a record of what's going on that people can r
by m0zg 8y ago
If you must have stand up meetings, why not have them over e.g. chat or Slack or IRC or the like? That way you get a record of what's going on that people can refer to. What's the added value of being in a virtual "room"? For collaboration over documents just use Google Docs. Far more workable than shaky drawing on a virtual whiteboard.
- kdzapp 8y agoHey! Thanks for the response. We've definitely heard this before but the research continues to show that when people work remotely their top complaints are collaboration and isolation. We are hoping we can hit both problems with our product but bringing people in a room where they feel like they are together. It's not a fully optimized "pragmatic" approach, but humans are social creatures and it shows in productivity and happiness when they are working remotely. https://open.buffer.com/state-remote-work-2018/ https://open.buffer.com/state-remote-work-2018/
- m0zg 8y agoIt's great that you're not super gung-ho over the current approach, and still searching. While not convinced currently, I'll keep you guys on my radar in the future. I'm sure there is an application for VR/AR in this space, but I'm also sure it'll take some time and a lot of elbow grease to figure out what it is. In the immediate future, I hope someone figures out a way to build a video conferencing solution which lets me "raise a virtual hand" when I'd like to speak, and for the person running the meeting to designate the current speaker. I think the current solutions all suck because there's no way to do it (so you have to talk over somebody else, fighting considerable audio lag), and I think VR would only exacerbate this because the experience is more visceral.