| 00:27 | <rkirsling> | was trying to get this figured out in our Tokyo planning channel but I guess the individuals who would know are not in there: |
| 00:29 | <rkirsling> | have hosts at other orgs needed to struggle to get an AV setup realized -- specifically, wrt ensuring that local and remote audio are adequately integrated? |
| 00:36 | <rkirsling> | basically I had never thought about how a mic'ing setup designed for video conferencing (i.e. a series of fixed-position mics on the tables which all mute/unmute together) is fundamentally different from the individual mic'ing setup that our plenaries depend upon |
| 00:40 | <rkirsling> | so our AV people were like, well we could rent individual mics and have them hooked up to one or more local speakers, but it seems super unclear whether there could be a good experience with two totally separated systems for local audio and remote audio |
| 00:41 | <rkirsling> | and it's all very frustrating because I didn't expect this to be viewed as so special or to require such a battle |
| 00:49 | <Michael Ficarra> | yeah it's surprisingly difficult lol 🤷♂️ |
| 00:50 | <Michael Ficarra> | turns out most business meetings aren't UN-style and don't have these requirements |
| 02:01 | <Mathieu Hofman> | Audio systems that work well for both local and remote attendees are a rarity and somewhat expensive. Echo cancellation is really hard to get right. |
| 17:18 | <shu> | the best experience i remember was the one in Portland that had those UN-style per-seat mics |
| 17:20 | <Michael Ficarra> | yep that one was fantastic |
| 18:54 | <shu> | does Sony make telepresence robots |
| 18:55 | <shu> | the copy on https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/research/projects/mado-project/ is very japanese |
| 18:56 | <shu> | 「 Reality 」 × 「 Aura 」 |
| 22:11 | <Rob Palmer> | I would love if delegates were represented by real-life robots with an iPad video head. |