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The problems with virtual rooms is that you can't have small breakout conversations naturally. In-person I can walk around a space and talk to small groups of p
by websap 5y ago
The problems with virtual rooms is that you can't have small breakout conversations naturally. In-person I can walk around a space and talk to small groups of people. On a virtual conference call, if I'm speaking everyone has to listen to me, which makes speaking for some people even harder.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoIn my case I setup a Mumble server which allows break out rooms
- 8note 5y agoAmong us with proximity chat as a work conference call? I was wanting to do that for my birthday last year, but I know too many people who don't own laptops
- Corrado 5y agoThere was a "meeting" startup on HN last year (several years ago?) that had such a product. Each "room" had multiple tables, which you were free to move between. You could sorta hear people at the other tables; the closer the table was, the easier you could hear the people at it. There was also a "stage" feature that allowed someone to address the whole room at once. It seemed like a pretty good experiment, but I don't think it caught on. Maybe Slack (or Teams) should aquihire them and implement something similar.
- joncrane 5y agogather.town? We used it for a few virtual meetups where I'm based.