Proposition: The "camera pointed at your face" video component of most remote meetings is usually nearly if not completely superfluous and unnecessarily intrusive. Discuss.
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1) it is a pain to remove the tinfoil sticker. So it stays where I'd put it before first time the O/I button was pressed on a device.
2) the stuttering pics of a face, ususally descynced slightly with the voice, are barely useful for the reception clues.
3) Nowadays stream of any face speaking in any voice can be generated entirely using a local model. Hence the old justification of 'for authentication purposes’ is no longer relevant.
@lauren In my experience, it depends on the meeting. Lots of people and a few presenters, no cam for most. Small meetings with a handful of people discussing project or task, cam is fine, imo.
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My observation at my employer is that people there use it very rarely, mostly when introducing new people to a group or if someone's presenting to a group, but never bother otherwise.
When my wife and I are using it at home to meet with a doctor, a therapist, financial advisors or similar, we do turn it on. Mostly so that we can pick up their facial expressions and they can pick up ours, to try to avoid miscommunicating on something important.