[dsaffy]

I understand the cartoony feedback. We're working on improving the quality of the avatars to be more adult / work focused. We do believe in avatars - they are one of the key points in our product - because we believe that being on video all day is soul crushing, but audio-only feels disconnected. The avatar provides privacy and personality at the same time. FWIW, you can turn on video if you want it too, we just default to the avatar.

[steve_adams_86]

Nice, that’s a great angle. I think you should stick with it. Thanks for responding and providing more context.

I might be a bad prospect because I’m a very literal and surface-level sensing type of person. I’m terrible at reading between lines, seeing past facades, etc. Working with avatars would probably make me feel like I’m in a cartoon, haha. This is definitely not your fault.

I know my oldest kids would love this. They don’t like the formality of things like zoom and they find mostly-text interfaces like slack stifling. By the time they’re in the workforce, if something like this was around they would likely prefer it.

Good luck with this. I’ll keep an eye on it for sure.

[egfx]

Believe me being an avatar all day is more soul crushing. Actually I cannot see how being face to face can be referred to as soul crushing. That’s a pretty said commentary on the target audience.

[dinkleberg]

In your opinion. For me, I’ll always favor video-off calls, especially when they are longer than 30 mins.

I find being on video calls all day incredibly draining. I can see how a tool like this would help. Though for me the addition of an avatar adds nothing, but it is a nice middle ground.

[cercatrova]

How does this compare with Gather? It seems fairly similar.

https://www.gather.town/