Physics-bound meetings
- Participants come together at the same time
- Only one information transmission channel, voice, can be used at a time.
- Inefficient when the goal is to give out a lot of information because while one person is talking, all the rest have to listen
- Whiteboard, a means of information sharing
- Whiteboards can be jointly edited, but
- It’s hard to see when you’re editing because the physical presence of someone who can edit is in the way.
- The number of people who can edit at the same time is rather limited.
- Whiteboards can be jointly edited, but
- Projectors are often used to project fixed slides
- It is better to use a projector to show Scrapbox, etc., which can be edited collaboratively.
- It is better to use a projector to show Scrapbox, etc., which can be edited collaboratively.
If you want to have a meeting in VR that isn’t tied to physics.
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Participants do not need to be all in one place.
- A lot of people realize this.
- But we’ve been able to achieve this through videoconferencing.
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Everyone should speak at the same time
- That voice should be garbled by voice recognition and float around.
- Assume that the voice is not a means of conveying information, but a signal that the output of information is now in the direction in which the voice is heard
- The voice will disappear instantly if you don’t listen with concentration at the right moment when it is being uttered.
- Words floating in space last longer.
- It’s too much trouble to explicitly turn it off, so it should just fade gradually or get smaller and smaller.
- If you pick something important and mark it as important, it will be bigger and more noticeable.
- Not limited to voice, but can throw pictures, graphs, and data into the discussion.
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Freedom from time
- Minutes are a medium for recording what was spoken in audio in the order in which it was spoken.
- For the minutes to be readable later, only one person should speak at a time.
- The story should not be scattered all over the place.
- For meetings in VR space, we could electronically record the time, place, and content of voice utterances and play them back.
- Piecing together floating words and information to create an organized structure through collaborative editing.
- Bringing together and structuring the opinions of several people
- Those who come later view the structured information
- If you want to know how it came to be, “replay” the minutes.
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Meeting in a state where it is not possible to gather in time
- One person expresses his/her opinion and creates a state of information floating in space.
- Another person comes in, looks at it, and gives their opinion.
- Another person comes in and looks at them and gives their opinion and structures them a little bit.
- This way we can have discussions among people who work in a time-dispersed manner.
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