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I've been seeing a lot of 90's style clothing coming back into style. I guess everything old is eventually new again. Around 2005 we purchased Marratech [1], w
by redm 6y ago
I've been seeing a lot of 90's style clothing coming back into style. I guess everything old is eventually new again.
Around 2005 we purchased Marratech [1], which was comparable to this, always on video for multiple people, chat, whiteboards, etc. Back then, it cost about $10,000 for a license. It was eventually acquired by Google and became their video product.
The only problem wasn't the technology, it was the social aspect of always on video. We did it for the same reasons they are pitching, virtual office. In our case, it didn't work. We do have a functional virtual office now using Slack, Zoom, etc. On-demand and async communication seems to work far better than this general concept did.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marratech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marratech
- asim 6y agoThe key thing to understand is async doesn't replace sync. There is still the need for human connection, they is still the need for synchronous comms. It just turns out one flat medium of either text or video on their own don't work well and no one is playing with the video format. We're all staring at 4:3 squares or black boxes. When you actually shrink the video and make it all about "presence", the experience drastically changes. That's our finding anyway, and thats why you're seeing many others go down this same kind of bubble photo/video route. But thanks for the history lesson.