Video Conferencing Must Evolve

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has forced hundreds of millions of people to use video conferencing tools to continue learning, educating, conducting business transactions and providing health care. These tools are poor conduits for true human-to-human communication. Posture, tone of voice, use of physical space, facial expressions, gestures, and more are all lost when communicating through these tools as we know them today. To replicate the in-person experiences we’ve all come to know, these tools need to evolve from what is possible today with simple sound and some pixels.