Conference call simulator

Oh, man. I wrote this thing with my buddy @weinventyou.

I've seen this before and still can't figure out if it's an ad or a Godspeed You Black Emperor song.

I was only able to get through about 30 seconds before cringing, but does it eventually include someone who spends 10 minutes eating an apple dipped in dorito chips?<p>It&#x27;s always the person who has a $500 microphone set up too, so you get to not only hear them chew, but you can even hear the inner workings of their esophagus swallowing every bite.

I feel like this would be good visual art display at the MoMA.. you know the videos that play endlessly in some dark room behind a black curtain...

I&#x27;ve been listening for about a half hour now. It feels like I joined a meeting and I&#x27;m completely ignoring it. It&#x27;s so satisfying.

This is, simultaneously:<p>* an all-too-realistic snapshot of corporate life<p>* a sobering commentary on the state of conference call norms and terribly interoperating related technologies<p>* if Bladerunner met Office Space<p>* a playbook on how to respond to various real-world conference call mishaps<p>* the funniest thing I&#x27;ve seen in some time

Me: [finishes summarizing work items x,y,z]<p>PM: Ok, thanks, so could we just get an update on work items x,y,z<p>Me: ...<p>---<p>I&#x27;m not mad. I&#x27;m just disappointed ... and mad. I assume he heard parts of what I was saying and it triggered some rudimentary pattern recognition in his brain stem that remembered he was interested in x, y, and z.

Almost real, it&#x27;s just missing loud audio feedback loops.

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Reminds me of this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kNz82r5nyUw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kNz82r5nyUw</a><p>Makes me laugh every time.

I could totally see this as a museum exhibit. Where I work, we regularly have people dial in from a downtown office and almost every call features sirens in the background. Needs more sirens.

For some reason the desktop version has some background music (mobile does not it seems?) which makes it so much more relaxing.

This is trauma inducing. Well done

Dystopian and soul-crushing, just like the real thing.<p>The visuals remind me of Koyaanisqatsi - I&#x27;d love Philip Glass as a soundtrack.

Listening to this at work is perfect, as all the noisy people who sit near me is bleeding through my headphones.<p>God, I hate open offices and conference calls&#x2F;webinars.<p>edit: it&#x27;s even better with multiple tabs open.

This is a nice reality check for remote-work partisans.<p>Yeah, we have the technology, but in practice you get this...

Not enough &quot;Hey, who just joined?&quot;

i only made it to like the 3rd audio sample and this is honestly and genuinely unbearable. great job capturing that feeling. good work.

This is amazing. Belongs in a museum.

this thing is great. don&#x27;t have time to listen to it right now and see if it&#x27;s changed at all, but when i listened to it last summer, i loved it. feels all too real.<p>i opened a radio show with 5 minutes of it once. then i sent it to some friends and half of them thought my email had been hacked and used to send out a phishing link (i felt bad after the fact for making it seem a little more ok to click on sketchy links).

This is a little too real.

This is oddly relaxing to listen to. It&#x27;s as if it&#x27;s the background noise for 90% of my day to day work.

Wait, do you mean the <i>internet</i> or the <i>internet</i>?<p>Ooh sorry, I mean the <i>interrrnet</i>, not the <i>interrrrrnet</i>

I find this to be genius &#x2F; fun and scary - a perfect balance.

Oh wow, when the dog started barking - amazing. This is dead on!

Do I hear Kai Ryssdal?

Thanks, I hate it.

Reminds me of the bank I used to write code for.

I&#x27;m billing for this.

Hit too close to home.

This is so soothing that I fell asleep to it.

I could watch this for hours.

Sadly very accurate

Hello... Hello...

Do people still do conference calls nowadays?<p>Using Hangouts has kind of eliminated the conference call problem for me. Audio quality is great, you can see who is speaking or know who wants to speak if the mute icon disappears.