Talk-from-home is hard. Last preparations to IntelliJ IDEA Conf.
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Dirty secret: Giving talks to virtual conferences is exhausting. Speakers need feedback to know that the audience is following, even if it is a subtle "the guy in the second row is nodding his head."
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Replying to @BrianGoetz @tagir_valeev
I recently noticed how much more I liked doing presentations in a regular Zoom call where a bunch of people had switched on their video. Of course not comparable to the real thing, but infinitely better than talking into the void

Feb 26, 2021 路 7:53 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @BrianGoetz @tagir_valeev
As a visual person I miss the general decline of slides in calls. I need to juggle a lot of things in my head in a call.
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Replying to @stilkov @BrianGoetz @tagir_valeev
Using a pretty clutterless virtual background also helps: more network and visual processing bandwidth left over for bobbing heads.
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True! This always requires an effort. It鈥檚 very stupid that the presentation tools don鈥檛 provide a decent mode for remote presentations (presenting in a window only helps if you don鈥檛 use presenter views)