More: In person meetings versus virtual meetings
I was chatting to a health professional recently about virtual meetings. One point they made was that they felt in-person meetings should (always!) be the preferred option over virtual, that in-person meetings were important opportunities for examining body language and this is currently missing from video calls. The more I talk to people about virtual vs in-person the more the issue of reading body postures appears. Maybe this part of meetings is too important to omit from future video calls, we would probably be talking about full length cameras of some kind. Maybe the solution to reading body gestures is a separate 2 nd window that has another view and also maybe controllable by the viewer. It was obvious in the discussion that there are big travel savings when using virtual meetings, a big win for the planet. I find it is interesting talking to people about virtual vs in-person meetings, usually it is not long before the conversation moves to the stuff you can't do in virtual ...