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The only question I have is how well it scales. The writeup above keeps talking about a “room” but the website features only person-to-person with the exceptio

The only question I have is how well it scales. The writeup above keeps talking about a “room” but the website features only person-to-person with the exception of the illustration of muting which shows the guitarist and hand-clapper as two ‘windows’. So two people cuts the 1080p (pretty low res) screen in half. What about 10 people, or 25? The answer is not in your FAQ: Q. How many Sidekicks can be connected on a team? A. We built Sidekick to handle teams of all sizes. You shouldn’t even have included that Q/A in the list, if you’re not going to answer it! Microsoft, Zoom, others, all working to figure out how to show more team members at once, so presumably this isn’t trivial to do well. Nothing indicating how you solve it, what to expect with larger teams, and what’s the present design intent to set expectations. So, real questions from a potential team, and team-of-teams (8-12 people per team, 20 teams): What’s the maximum number of participants that display at once, and what happens beyond that number? Regardless of design intent, what’s the actual maximum number?

achen187 6y ago
That's great feedback. Honestly, we haven't set up a team larger than 5 at this point. However, I also believe that 3-5 is roughly the amount of people who you actually work really closely with. These units are probably the right grouping for who is in one room. There is no actual max number, but I do think the design and the use case would fall apart right now. But there's some things we're thinking about like separate channels that might help with this.
- TACIXAT 6y ago
  Stress test it!
- Terretta 6y ago
  > I believe that 3-5 is roughly the amount of people...right grouping for one room Isaac Asimov commented maximum creativity is 3-5, but a variety of firms have found the optimal team size is a “two pizza team” (6 to 10, typically 8). Google the term, you get tons of discussion from blogs to journalism, that can lead you to papers: http://blog.idonethis.com/two-pizza-team/ http://blog.idonethis.com/two-pizza-team/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/the-two-pizza-rule-and-the-secret-of-amazons-success https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/the-two-p... In any case, what pattern does the screen divide into for 5? Of course there is a max number, arguably the number of individual pixels if you wanted each participant’s presence indicated by a single dot, but the practical limit is much lower. How many can you do? Why not test more? Currently Teams on iPad is 9, the increase from 4 was news: https://winbuzzer.com/2020/04/14/microsoft-teams-is-doubling-the-number-of-people-you-can-see-in-video-calls-xcxwbn/ https://winbuzzer.com/2020/04/14/microsoft-teams-is-doubling... Zoom is 42, so Teams plans 49 shortly: https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/15/microsoft-teams-zoom-49-video-call-participants/ https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/15/microsoft-teams-zoom-49-v... A 7x7 grid on an iPad Pro works out to something like 390x292, well above the 320x240 that was a fine streaming video size back in the day. PS. If you haven’t done more than 5, say so in the FAQ.

achen187 6y ago

That's great feedback. Honestly, we haven't set up a team larger than 5 at this point. However, I also believe that 3-5 is roughly the amount of people who you actually work really closely with. These units are probably the right grouping for who is in one room. There is no actual max number, but I do think the design and the use case would fall apart right now. But there's some things we're thinking about like separate channels that might help with this.

TACIXAT 6y ago
Stress test it!
Terretta 6y ago
> I believe that 3-5 is roughly the amount of people...right grouping for one room Isaac Asimov commented maximum creativity is 3-5, but a variety of firms have found the optimal team size is a “two pizza team” (6 to 10, typically 8). Google the term, you get tons of discussion from blogs to journalism, that can lead you to papers: http://blog.idonethis.com/two-pizza-team/ http://blog.idonethis.com/two-pizza-team/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/the-two-pizza-rule-and-the-secret-of-amazons-success https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/the-two-p... In any case, what pattern does the screen divide into for 5? Of course there is a max number, arguably the number of individual pixels if you wanted each participant’s presence indicated by a single dot, but the practical limit is much lower. How many can you do? Why not test more? Currently Teams on iPad is 9, the increase from 4 was news: https://winbuzzer.com/2020/04/14/microsoft-teams-is-doubling-the-number-of-people-you-can-see-in-video-calls-xcxwbn/ https://winbuzzer.com/2020/04/14/microsoft-teams-is-doubling... Zoom is 42, so Teams plans 49 shortly: https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/15/microsoft-teams-zoom-49-video-call-participants/ https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/15/microsoft-teams-zoom-49-v... A 7x7 grid on an iPad Pro works out to something like 390x292, well above the 320x240 that was a fine streaming video size back in the day. PS. If you haven’t done more than 5, say so in the FAQ.