Zoom: The Next Generation
I feel like my social life has been reduced to an episode of the Brady Bunch. Just me and a bunch o squares on Zoom. —— Teams… Slack… Zoom … no matter the app… it’s all the same a two-dimensional checkerboard of human heads… sure… the heads change from meeting to meeting… but the awkwardness stays. Try singing happy birthday to a co-worker. We did…. That was not the Tabernacle choir in case you were confused. — that was bad — Thankfully… the next generation of group meeting apps is in beta testing. There’s one called gather.town — instead of a tik tak toe board…. you’re in a house. You use the arrow keys to move around… and as you get closer to a person …they get louder and other voices fade. You can sit on a couch or at a table… and have a private one-on-one… while others do the same thing. It’s more like being at a party … than that sad …sad … birthday song I just played. Point is… there’s hope. developers are working on a bunch of different meeting apps that do away with the checkerboard and make virtual life a little more engaging. Or irf you’re a Brady Bunch fan… you can always stick with Zoom. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.