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Re:Zoom Fatigue Unpacked: Understanding and Overcoming Virtu... by bee_rider on Sunday July 16, 2023 @12:48PM (#36749002)
The perspective mismatch between desktop and laptop users can be a bit funny, laptop users tend to be close to the screen, so they take up their cameras’ full field of view. Blown up on a big desktop screen it is like they are right in your face. It really can feel uncomfortably intimate, as silly as that sounds!

Luckily my monitor was on an arm, so I could do one setup for Zoom, one for meetings.

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Re:Zoom Fatigue Unpacked: Understanding and Overcoming Virtu... by neilv on Sunday July 16, 2023 @02:12PM (#36749938)
I want to figure out a better way to do this. (The worst was when my extreme closeup was combined with some remote conference room that put videoconf people up on large wall displays. So, besides the larger-than-life HD pore inspection, it might've seemed I was glowering down upon them from above.)

I use a laptop on a "lectern" standing desk that gets wheeled around for natural light, etc.

I already use a corded USB camera, but if I put it on an arm rather than on top of laptop, there's even more eye contact disconnect from the laptop display.

I probably have to get a big external monitor, so that I can be looking at it from greater distance. Which I'd guess means either a fixed location for videoconf (the monitor is in a fixed location, whether or not my standing desk is), or a much larger standing desk to wheel around.

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Re:Zoom Fatigue Unpacked: Understanding and Overcoming Virtu... by bee_rider on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:07AM (#36759173)
IMO if you are working from home it is worthwhile to invest in a nice setup. You’ll want that big screen for coding anyway, right?

I got one of those silly ring lights (so I wouldn’t have to worry about natural lighting) and managed to mount my webcam inside it, it worked pretty well. I don’t think people expect a pro twitch setup, but you can get pretty close with basic consumer gear!

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