[rkangel]

I've come to two conclusions about video conferences:

I really like cameras on so I can see people's faces. It feels much more like seeing people in person and the fact that my new team doesn't do that is making it harder to feel part of a group.

While I really like cameras on for calls, video quality isn't important (to me), but audio quality really is. Bad audio whether it's background noise, bad internet, echo etc. makes vc very tiring. The video could be 640x480 and 1 FPS and that would probably be fine - helps me know there's a real person on the other end of the call.

[wombatmobile]

Audio carries 80% of the intellectual content of most telepresence. That's why when there's a live cross on TV News and the video works but the audio is missing, they give up and return to the studio until the audio is up.