Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities

Unless you're a professional photographer, your iPhone is likely the best camera you own. In fact, the iPhone is such a good camera, that it rewrites the rules for how to craft a professional video calling setup.

While Zoom, Teams and others focused on building teleconferencing features — breakout rooms, Q&A, integration with work tools, transcripts, that sort of thing — Discord has continued drilling down on quality and latency.

Facebook today rolled out a new suite of products dedicated to what the company calls “virtual presence” — and what you and I would more often call video chat.

The issue is delivery, not content or capture. There’s a lot of raw footage roughly of this quality, it’s just been impossible to get to consumers without arduous download times or distracting compression artifacts. For reference, these videos are encoded at 250 Mbps which is not streamable, whereas Apple Immersive videos are 50 Mbps.

These devices make it easier and cheaper for companies to produce high-quality ‘mirror worlds’ or ‘digital twins’ of physical spaces, as well as use scans of the real world to produce higher-quality and less-expensive fantasy ones. Fifteen years ago, we were stunned by Google’s ability to capture (and finance) 360° 2D images of every street in the ... See more