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At first I thought this was going to be a room where it always had everyone's videos and you could see all your remote workers and I was like "...creepy...and no..."

I guess that could be a use case, but it's much simpler than that. Seems pretty neat.

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Something like that would be tremendously useful when you're one person who's WFH. It would be nice to take a glance at the office webcam, and see if my coworkers are actually at their desks before pinging them a question - otherwise, I'm not sure if they're about to respond, or busy away from their desk, etc.

Could you imagine using the current feature set to do this? Is there anything missing?

I think you'd have to have a dedicated machine with a camera for this; otherwise, you'd have to ask one of your coworkers to basically be constantly on-camera for you. That's not a limitation of the service, though.

Right, there are a number of tools like that including the (now defunct) Sqwiggle. My goal was to create something simple to fit a few use cases and see what people do with it.

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