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Feels good enough. I'm not going to take pictures with it, just communicate.
by dividuum 7y ago
Feels good enough. I'm not going to take pictures with it, just communicate.
- martin_a 7y agoNever did fullscreen video calls before? I'd love to have 1080p front face webcams.
- Hamuko 7y agoFor what purpose are you people even doing video calls for? I've never understood this.
- martin_a 7y agoYou know, we humans sometimes like to see each other. It's about facial expressions and feeling companionship or whatever you might call it. You might get it sometime.
- Hamuko 7y agoAbsolutely no one at my workplace has ever requested anyone else to put on a webcam. And really the only time I can remember someone enabling their webcam was because they wanted to show off their cat. Meetings have gone well without it as well.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't post like this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- martin_a 7y agoSnarky questions deserve snarky replies. It's a give and take.
- dang 7y agoThe GP shouldn't have used the trigger phase "you people", but I don't read it as snarky. In any case, your (or anyone's) response needs to do a little less damage than the stimulus—not more—or else we get a downward spiral.
- markstos 7y agoMore expressive communication.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoMajority of my company is remote. Well, 100% of it is now, with the pandemic. That said, no one streams their face or watches anyone else talk in 1080p. 720p is fine.
- Hamuko 7y agoOur team is 100% remote at least for the time being, but still no one uses their webcam and it doesn't really seem to be hurting. And usually there's a screen to share anyways, negating any purpose in webcams.
- jshevek 7y agoI prefer text and voice over video, but for some situations video can be more time efficient. Several people can communicate aspects of their thoughts and opinions with facial expressiond (or head movements) simultaneous with one person talking, without interrupting.
- bluGill 7y agoMostly it is a gimic, but my kids did have a class where the teacher asked them to raise their hands before speaking for which you need video. (there is a raise hand option in the call, but to explain how to use that to kids or teachers...)
- crispinb 7y agoI've only had it when demanded by managers, who generally associate "work" with yakking in person because it's often the only thing they know how to do. I've never been requested by another dev to switch the cam on - what with talking, typing and screen-sharing, it's just an unnecessary thing to distract focus.
- rsynnott 7y agoI was a bit of a sceptic initially, but now that I work in a company with a bunch of remotes (and am temporarily remote myself due to The Plague), it really helps.
- Hamuko 7y agoHelps how?
- akincisor 7y agoNo one, not even those who love me, need to see my face in High Def.
- martin_a 7y agoTurn your lights down low. Sometimes it's like laying in bed next to each other... ;-D