Its 2FA if you use your phone instead of the physical card. I carry cards around with me (when I have my wallet on me) for when tap isn't available. Looking at you Home Depot. And for some reason, tap payments in Canada seems to be hit or miss.
If the US is so far behind, then why can US credit card holders use tap and pay for any transaction, unlike the rest of the world? Europeans are amazed that I can tap and pay a $5,000 charge, where they still have to insert, wait, enter pin, wait, then its paid.
I love buying things in Europe with tap and go that exceeds a few hundred Euro. It's great using contactless payments for ANY transaction, as opposed to every other country who heavily restricts the transaction amount for contactless.
"Teams was free" has changed to "we are already using Teams, why would we change?". I was in the MS meeting with our IT. MS literally said "we get paid if you deploy Teams, so lets deploy Teams!". Everyone except meet thought "well this is a GREAT idea! Lets do that!"
Mod this up by 1,000. People don't realize Teams is a botched job of taping SharePoint and S4B together. Hence why it runs like crap, also because it had so little actual work to make a good product...they just did the minimal viable product. As noted, mapping Explorer to any SP site/Teams site is the feature no one talks about.
If anyone would actually give Webex a try they would realize how much better it is than MS Teams. Sure, its different than Slack and Discord. But the Webex app for meetings and chat is pretty freaking awesome when compared to MS or Zoom.
Digging a bit deeper, it appears to be a torq-set head, possible a MS33781 spec. The screw itself appears to be a NAS1102.
Looking at the high res image, it appears to be more like a MorTorq type of head....but not quite.
Funny, I like my Tesla because it doesn't have Android Auto. Google restricts you too much when using their UI while driving, more specifically restricts what the passenger can do while someone else is driving. I'll take Tesla's UI any day over anything Apple or Google put out.
Transmitting your video isn't causing fatigue, it is viewing yourself which does. Pre-COVID no one ever had self-view enabled, the industry standard was to not see yourself. Then Zoom and MS changed the game because their solutions could not be trusted or users couldn't figure out video, so they defaulted self-view on.
All of a sudden, everyone is staring at themselves as well as others. The fatigue is not looking at others. Rather, it is looking at yourself, mentally processing how you appearing to others, compensating, rinse/repeat. Try it some time. Have your camera on with self-view off. Zero fatigue. No different to hearing yourself talk while talking - mind numbing.
Not so much camera on or off, but self-view on or off.
Zoom started a bad practice of having self-view on by default which only adds to the fatigue.
It's interesting that they used lectures as the test. I'd guess that most people in day long videoconferences experiencing fatigue are not attending lectures, but rather attending meetings for work.
Having taken a bunch of classes the past couple years in person and via videoconferencing, I can attest that the subject certainly impacts if the online meeting/lecture is fatiguing. I had some classes which I enjoyed remote, while others I wished were actually offered in person.
As it relates to business/work, I'd venture to say the fatique is just the pure number of meetings. Having supported videoconferencing for the past 20+ years, the fatigue is likely do to back to back meetings, in ability to get a break, senseless meetings, etc. Videoconference adoption has really made it super easy for people to mismanage meetings and be inconsiderate (unintentional, or otherwise) to those attending.
PS: I'm glad Webex was mentioned in the article header. It is far to often overlooked and a much more suitable and quality product over Zoom and MS Teams. Before the haters chime in, those who dislike it please make sure you have used the latest version, not the one from 20 years ago. Please also do back-to-back comparisons between the 3 platforms as well. It will become clear which platform offers a higher quality experience.
You couldn't see the volume adjustment on the lower right corner of the screen? Or didn't try one of the scroll wheels on the wheel, like every other car on the market? And the braking option to drive like a classic ICE is in their very easy to use menu - or just use the search box.
I'm not sure they could have made the car any easier to use. Compare this to ICE cards with their horrible menus - some even having different menus based on how you access them or if the vehicle is in P or D.
Actually, Cisco hardware works fine with Zoom, Teams, etc. Either via SIP or BYOD USB. Cisco devices are now able to run in MTR mode too if you want.
Even better, almost all advanced features work on any meeting platform due to it running local on the device. The same cannot be said for Zoom Rooms which in almost all cases is only available in Zoom Meetings.
And the final icing on the cake, Cisco solutions are almost always more simplified, cheaper and function in a better capacity than anything coming from Logi, Poly, Neat, etc.
Cisco released meeting summaries and actions items for meetings many, many years ago. For some reason just Microsoft and Zoom seem to get all the press in the collab space. Meanwhile, Cisco is leading the charge - this was even admitted to me by Zoom.
I think Zoom is just grasping at the straws to try and keep customers, as well as justify the price for their more expensive plans.
And before anyone starts ripping on Webex, make sure you have used the Webex with the advanced noise reduction, Slido integration, proper HD video, that all works amazingly well with their proper Room series video units running SpeakerTrack and People Focus. I'm not speaking about the Webex of 15 years ago which seems to be the only version people tend to refer to.
I recall flying in the late 90s, possibly even 2000, where I walked up to security with my ticket and went through the metal detector. No ID required.
Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles Duell, Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899
