What we really need is a decent AR or VR headset for remote conferencing.
If you are wearing a headset, what would your conversation partners see?
An avatar. You really don’t need much else to get a superior experience to a video call. Being able to turn towards the person who is speaking, see the posture they are holding and have 3D audio is far better than 2d faces in little boxes. It’s also lighter on bandwidth so you don’t wind up talking to laggy robots.
I've found I trust people less who are staring at the camera, because they are prioritizing building psuedo-webcam empathy over actually looking at and following along with/understanding our shared screen. I dunno. But at some point you can tell who's faking it. Sort of like someone who read How to Win Friends and Influence People and follows it to the letter- they use your name too often shoehorned into conversation…
Randy I think that's a great take. I can tell you put a lot into it, Randy. That's great. Books are great resource for learning--I agree, Randy!
I had a coworker who (pretty obviously, mind you) kept a One Note tracker of EVERYONE at the company's dogs, cats, and children. Wouldn't have a meeting with her for another 15 months? She'll ask you how Doja and Steve the chinchilla are doing. When she could get them, she'd also store photos of them. She considered herself a "networking genius."