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Re:Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for ... by tgb on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:37AM (#25046411)
> In order for this to work I'd have to work all day with a camera on my face, if I understood this correctly. This sounds awful to me.

Yeah I wasn't sure, is that what they're suggesting as the use-case? Always-on video and mic sounds awful, even if most of the time no one sees it. My home is not my office, my "home office" is just a desk in my living room and I share this space. So opening a window to my home is, frankly, unwelcome.

Re:Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for ... by eambutu on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:29PM (#25054905)
One of the most important features here for work is actually explicitly not doing always-on camera/mic. We have a setting that makes it so that when you're not looking at the tab, no one can see/hear you, but other people can come up to you and "tap on your shoulder". If you do decide to engage with them, it's super frictionless.