video calls
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Webcams With Wandering Backgrounds Are Utter Nonsense
Somewhere in a meeting room, a group of very pleased-with-themselves tech people decided that what video calls really needed was a camera that stalks your face around the frame like a budget Spielberg shot. Auto-framing, eye-tracking, magical “keep you in the centre” nonsense. Clever demo. Terrible experience. The sort of distracting and annoying thing that…
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Why Zoom Took Over (and Why It Shouldn’t Have)
There was a time when if you wanted to speak to someone, you just… called them. No warning. No scheduling. You picked up the phone, said hello, and had a chat. Simple. Whatever Happened to Just Picking Up the Phone? Then 2020 happened, and suddenly the world decided that even one-to-one conversations needed to be booked.…