Introduction to "Video Conferencing Tools for the Quarantine Period (Work from Home)"

In this episode of the Lifestyle, Travel & Technology podcast, the hosts Alexander, Garry & Nikki highlight the phenomena of the increased usage of applications and tools to help students, teachers and employees to hold/participate in virtual classes or meetings. Since the pandemic hit most countries and is still ongoing, more companies and schools are trying to contribute to flattening the curve by staying at home and working from home. In order to have an efficient virtual classroom or meeting, schools and businesses need to use the proper software to transmit audio, video and text data. This means that all participants are able to hear and see the teacher holding the class or person conducting the meeting and at the same time have the ability to send and receive text files.

In the time of the quarantine period, governments are asking their citizens to stay home and if possible work from home. The hosts are familiar with many of these video conferencing tools but some applications may be more familiar than others. These tools come in form of a free version as well as paid subscriptions. The hosts cover the most popular of these tools and highlight one application they all use on a regular basis, especially when they are recording their podcast episodes from remote locations. Tune in to find out why they believe this specific tool is superior over the others.

Podcast Episode Summary

• Boom in Video conferencing tools
• Enterprise solutions and consumer solutions
• Skype - Microsoft
• Discord
  • core function for gamers to voice chat
  • add servers
    • add bots to servers
  • Intimidating at first but once familiar - considered best solution
• popular tools used by many (Pros and Cons)
• server limits were increased due to the corona virus 
• would Twitch work as a video conferencing tool?
• comparing Skype with discord
• Netflix and VPN

Quotables

Alexander - "...these tools are pretty much software that transmit audio, video and text files to multiple participants..."
Garry - "...once you are used to it, it's for sure the best solutions..."
Nikki - "...what's really popular among private people when it is not for business is the Facebook video tool and Whatsapp..."


Recommended Resources 

• https://www.techradar.com/best/best-video-conferencing-software
• https://zoom.us/
• https://discordapp.com/