Re:Facebook Is Working on a Video Chat Device
by lin_lin on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:51AM
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> I can also see how it would be helpful for remote teams.
We had this arrangement once. A cube of four of us, had a big always-on tele-screen dialled into our remote team (four guys in another city). Fun at first but then we had to mute it (the background noise in both directions was very distracting, annoying to other employees). So we ended up in a farcical scenario of having it always on but relying on waving at the camera to get someone's attention, or IMing them, to unmute :)
We had this arrangement once. A cube of four of us, had a big always-on tele-screen dialled into our remote team (four guys in another city). Fun at first but then we had to mute it (the background noise in both directions was very distracting, annoying to other employees). So we ended up in a farcical scenario of having it always on but relying on waving at the camera to get someone's attention, or IMing them, to unmute :)