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New research is offering some of the first empirical evidence of the fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings. The research is part of an increasing body of study into the psychological effects of remote work and the growing phenomenon known… Continue reading Switching cameras off during meetings found to reduce Zoom fatigue
For more than year now, Zoom has been on a mission to transform from an application into a platform. To that end it made three announcements last year: Zoom Apps development tools, the Zoom Apps marketplace and a $100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on top […] Continue reading Zoom announces first startups receiving funding from $100M investment fund
Working from home with regular video meetings has its challenges, especially if you add kids to the mix. To help avoid embarrassing situations, [Charitha Jayaweera] created Present!, a USB device …read more Continue reading Avoid Awkward Video Conference Situations With PIR and Arduino
Wearing headphones for extended Zoom sessions can be an uncomfortable, or even painful, experience, but using a laptop’s built-in speaker can be less than satisfactory. Sony has launched a wireless neckband speaker designed for all-day comfort while wo… Continue reading Sony promises all-day comfort with neckband speaker for remote workers
Computer tech giant Dell challenged itself to create a webcam that could deliver “DSLR-like image quality while being intelligent and easy-to-use.” The UltraSharp Webcam is the result, a 4K videochat tool that promises to keep users in the frame.Contin… Continue reading Dell’s UltraSharp Webcam aims to keep users in the frame
Several egregious vulnerabilities affecting the Stem Audio Table conference room speakerphone could be exploited by attackers to eavesdrop on what’s being discussed in its proximity, download malicious firmware, achieve and maintain network persi… Continue reading How a conference room speakerphone might let attackers into your company network
The world is one step closer to ultimately secure conference calls, thanks to a collaboration between Quantum Communications Hub researchers and their German colleagues, enabling a quantum-secure conversation to take place between four parties simultan… Continue reading One step closer to quantum-secure conference calls
We don’t hear as much these days about “Zoom fatigue” as we did in the first months after the Covid-19 pandemic kicked off last year, but what’s less clear is whether people became more tolerant to the medium, or if they’d found ways of coping with it better, or if they were hopeful that tools […] Continue reading Zoom fatigue no more: Rewatch raises $20M to index, transcribe and store enterprise video content
Issac Asimov wrote Caves of Steel in 1953. In it, he mentions something called trimensional personification. In an age before WebEx and Zoom, imagining that people would have remote meetings replete …read more Continue reading Project Starline Realizes Asimov’s 3D Vision
Following an influential analysis published in February, a team of Stanford University researchers has conducted the first large survey into the very modern phenomenon of “Zoom Fatigue.” The new study reveals women suffer from greater exhaustion follow… Continue reading New Stanford “Zoom Fatigue” study finds women affected more than men