Re:Ask HN: What stops your organization from being remote fi...
by DoreenMichele on Monday July 16, 2018 @07:54PM
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teleconferencing setup, not software.
IIRC, they paid an artist $18k (many years ago, when that was "real money") to create a large oval table in two halves. One half is in The Tower at the US headquarters. The other is in Japan.
The table halves face a blank wall. The entire wall serves as the canvas for projecting the teleconference.
So, you are literally sitting face to face across the same table with people a continent and ocean away, separated by something like a 17 hour time difference, yet it is like they are in the same room.
I have been in the conference room, but never participated in nor seen the conferencing happen. The description is like something out of a futuristic movie and it leaves me agog that the company has apparently never waxed eloquent about it anywhere, though perhaps it is part of their "secret sauce."
IIRC, they paid an artist $18k (many years ago, when that was "real money") to create a large oval table in two halves. One half is in The Tower at the US headquarters. The other is in Japan.
The table halves face a blank wall. The entire wall serves as the canvas for projecting the teleconference.
So, you are literally sitting face to face across the same table with people a continent and ocean away, separated by something like a 17 hour time difference, yet it is like they are in the same room.
I have been in the conference room, but never participated in nor seen the conferencing happen. The description is like something out of a futuristic movie and it leaves me agog that the company has apparently never waxed eloquent about it anywhere, though perhaps it is part of their "secret sauce."