Run effortless hybrid meetings with co-location groups [Beta]. No echo, no extra hardware. Just an inclusive, enjoyable experience where your distributed team can make magic happen.
Time to kill the "one remote - all remote" rule! We can finally have hybrid meetings that feel like we're all together.
Hell yeah, nice one team.
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Great innovation. I can really see this being incredibly useful. Just need 24 on camera support in Pro or some new tier between Pro and Business.
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We have been using Whereby for so long that we even remember it's previous name - appear in.
Great update. Congrats!
By the way for those who don't know, I think the killer feature of Whereby is Flex Rooms. No other video conferencing tool comes close to Whereby with regard to simplicity for jumping on a team call.
Great job on the launch of your new product! This is a really innovative way to run hybrid meetings and I'm sure it will be a big hit with distributed teams. Well done!
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Congrats! Surely will try.
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Great product , Congrats !!!!!!!!!!!!
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I want to love this, but all the problems you spoke about in the video just aren't problems anymore. This sounds like an advert for Zoom in June 2020. I agree with Zlatko about wanting to back the underdogs, but I just don't see (from the video) what's compelling. Zoom has echo cancelation built in, and most people use Kris[p now anyway.
The sitting in the same room just makes no sense. Before we needed people in the same room for a reason, now we don't. They can be in the same place, and behind a computer.
This just feels a bit like a cure for no disease.
@richmulholland Hi Richard! I totally get that perspective. For what it's worth, what we're doing here is a little different than that--Whereby Colocation Groups do far more than just echo cancellation or noise filtering. With this capability, you can now sit across from your colleagues while joining the same virtual meeting, and leave microphones free/open for every device in the room, allowing both remote and in-person participants to have a natural conversation and not worry about the tech. Even the best echo cancellation and background noise filtering on the market has so far not made an experience like that possible.
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@andytyra Hey Andy, I guess I just don't feel that you have solved a problem with this. If I'm speaking to the people in the room, I'm looking way above my webcam and the people online would feel like they were watching other people's conversations from a bad angle. The solve here is to have nobody in the same room, that way everyone is on an equal footing and there are no "second-class citizens".
You guys have solved a minor technical hurdle(most people just mute all but one mic when doing this setup), but you have added a bigger one (a lack of eye contact).
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