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At some point bandwidth should be cheap and plentiful enough that it would be practical, instead of gathering people into a physical office, to let them work wh
by ScottBurson 12y ago
At some point bandwidth should be cheap and plentiful enough that it would be practical, instead of gathering people into a physical office, to let them work where they want, and do impromptu videoconferencing when they want to talk to each other. I'm actually surprised we haven't gone farther in this direction already. But the videoconferencing needs to be really really good, and that is apparently still fairly expensive.
Obviously this can't really take off until gigabit fiber is much more widespread. So I can see that there might not be much benefit in being one of the first few locales to get it.
Is there even any affordable hi-def video camera, including hi-def stereo audio? I haven't actually looked in a long time.
- crdoconnor 12y agoI saw this for the first time the other day - an office had a remote designer who was permanently hooked up to the video conferencing system. It worked extremely well, actually. They could even overhear conversations other people were having in the room at the same time and join in.
- bjelkeman-again 12y agoWe have been trying a few iterations with this, but not had enough bandwidth or the right setup. I really need this to become practical.
- bane 12y agoMy company basically does this to some extent now. Group hangouts basically fills in for conferences and we all get rMBP issued so we have web cams. Since it's all 1:1:1:1, you can see people really well in the conference, facial expressions, etc. Run of the mill broadband is "good enough" for most of this.