Last night I was in Brookline, and the three inhabitants there, plus SS in this town (Phd) and then AD who's back in Nepal (he's coming next year, we're told!) had a group Zoom call. With the four of us in there, we got three cameras going, one from every angle. At first it took us a bit to figure out which mic and speaker to turn on and which one to turn off, but we eventually figured it out (turn video only for all devices except the main one), and things went rather well after that.
We were covered by the three cameras, enough to maybe turn us into a 3-d scene and project us into a holographic image sort of situation. You could make documentary out of us, changing camera angles as we changed topics, and looked at different cameras. It was so freakin' cool.
But with all the time and energy it took us to set it up, maybe not, maybe it wasn't really worth the effort. It was cool and all to change camera angles as you talked to the person in front of you, and they'd still be able to look at your face, sort of like 'the office effect' but it...didn't really work out as well as you'd hope. Plus with light angles and popping up all these devices, and figuring out the 'blocking' aka how to have the 'scene' in front of all the cameras all the time, it felt like we were trying to produce a multi-camera comedy show while on the call. On one hand, that made me have better appreciation of those producers. On the other hand, unless you want to go into television or movie production, maybe don't get multicamera video chats on.
That's all I got!
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