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@richmulholland Hi Richard! I totally get that perspective. For what it's worth, what we're doing here is a little different than that--Whereby Colocation Groups do far more than just echo cancellation or noise filtering. With this capability, you can now sit across from your colleagues while joining the same virtual meeting, and leave microphones free/open for every device in the room, allowing both remote and in-person participants to have a natural conversation and not worry about the tech. Even the best echo cancellation and background noise filtering on the market has so far not made an experience like that possible.

@andytyra Hey Andy, I guess I just don't feel that you have solved a problem with this. If I'm speaking to the people in the room, I'm looking way above my webcam and the people online would feel like they were watching other people's conversations from a bad angle. The solve here is to have nobody in the same room, that way everyone is on an equal footing and there are no "second-class citizens". You guys have solved a minor technical hurdle(most people just mute all but one mic when doing this setup), but you have added a bigger one (a lack of eye contact).