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Please couple this with VR + avatars + realistic settings and the future will finally be here. Business meetings will never again require flying

flatline 6y ago
Have we not been living through the same pandemic? Nobody in the US has a reliable internet connection, services are controlled by third parties and randomly black out, infrastructure is overloaded, meetings are insecure, people step away from their keyboards and are unreachable, there are screaming kids in the background, etc.? I would happily board a plane for work travel right now, this is like living in a parody of my previous job.
- airstrike 6y ago
  I suppose my experience has been different! Everyone at work is expected to respond to any e-mail in 15 minutes at most (1 hour on weekends), I have no kids and honestly haven't seen a single one in zoom calls (I hear this one person's dogs barking a lot if they're in the meeting, though), calls are airtight and password protected, and most of my contacts have pretty good internet
  - edejong 6y ago
    Wow, do you get paid for being on call during the weekends?
    - airstrike 6y ago
      I get paid enough to not complain about it... part of the job description, I suppose
      - edejong 6y ago
        I’m sorry to say so, but I find these kind of conditions discriminating to those who have a family.
        airstrike 6y ago
        Lots of us have families. It's a trade-off, not discrimination. There are other jobs out there that don't require the same degree of availability. We get paid like doctors, so we're on call like doctors
moron4hire 6y ago
That's actually what I'm doing for my day job and part of why I originally built this. I built the 2D map for Calla because I was still in the middle of converting all my VR work from Unity to WebXR. But pretty soon, VR will be possible. Technically, Calla is just the library for driving Jitsi and adding spatialization. You can do whatever graphics you want with it. The graphical elements and the interactions are all up to you to build, separately from the teleconferencing.
- airstrike 6y ago
  Very interesting! I've had this idea in my mind for ages but never see how it could catch up with enterprise-y type customers, but I suppose a pandemic can really be a motivating factor
LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
You mean like in [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project and later [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt ?
- airstrike 6y ago
  Those are really cool, but not exactly what I was imagining. I was thinking more of a temporary virtual space like a zoom meeting / boardroom type setting. Gotta be packaged like an app / solution to take off

flatline 6y ago

Have we not been living through the same pandemic? Nobody in the US has a reliable internet connection, services are controlled by third parties and randomly black out, infrastructure is overloaded, meetings are insecure, people step away from their keyboards and are unreachable, there are screaming kids in the background, etc.? I would happily board a plane for work travel right now, this is like living in a parody of my previous job.

airstrike 6y ago
I suppose my experience has been different! Everyone at work is expected to respond to any e-mail in 15 minutes at most (1 hour on weekends), I have no kids and honestly haven't seen a single one in zoom calls (I hear this one person's dogs barking a lot if they're in the meeting, though), calls are airtight and password protected, and most of my contacts have pretty good internet
- edejong 6y ago
  Wow, do you get paid for being on call during the weekends?
  - airstrike 6y ago
    I get paid enough to not complain about it... part of the job description, I suppose
    - edejong 6y ago
      I’m sorry to say so, but I find these kind of conditions discriminating to those who have a family.
      - airstrike 6y ago
        Lots of us have families. It's a trade-off, not discrimination. There are other jobs out there that don't require the same degree of availability. We get paid like doctors, so we're on call like doctors

moron4hire 6y ago

That's actually what I'm doing for my day job and part of why I originally built this. I built the 2D map for Calla because I was still in the middle of converting all my VR work from Unity to WebXR. But pretty soon, VR will be possible. Technically, Calla is just the library for driving Jitsi and adding spatialization. You can do whatever graphics you want with it. The graphical elements and the interactions are all up to you to build, separately from the teleconferencing.

airstrike 6y ago
Very interesting! I've had this idea in my mind for ages but never see how it could catch up with enterprise-y type customers, but I suppose a pandemic can really be a motivating factor

LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago

You mean like in [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project and later [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt ?

airstrike 6y ago
Those are really cool, but not exactly what I was imagining. I was thinking more of a temporary virtual space like a zoom meeting / boardroom type setting. Gotta be packaged like an app / solution to take off