"If you're in a room with 20 people, it's unusual that you can see all 20 faces at once," says Boellstorff. This sounds like it should be a good thing - after all, video chats are more life-like than phone calls - but Boellstorff says it's this attempt (and failure) at life-like conversation that can make video calls exhausting. Ten months into the pandemic, they have now become the sole source of interpersonal interaction for many. Zoom's predecessor, Skype, was founded in 2003, but it has reached new audiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, ranging from grandparents to school children. The background - Video conferencing is not a new innovation. Whether people start hosting a conference in Second Life or meeting up with friends on Animal Crossing, the future is likely to hold even more diverse options for digital connection. It's all in service of ensuring that our online interactions can still be as emotionally and psychologically fruitful as they are in person. Tom Boellstorff, a professor of anthropology at UC Irvine who studies online spaces, tells Inverse that dynamic, game-like platforms are likely to become more popular this year and next. digitally fishing together) instead of trying to make the environment fit into a preconceived notion of social interactions (e.g. The reason why Zoom exhausts us, but we can hunt for fossils with our friends in Animal Crossing for hours, is that the game takes advantage of new social opportunities in the digital environment (e.g. Fun, even, say experts who spoke with Inverse.
The future of video chats will be a lot more personal. The future of video chat won't always look like a Zoom grid. It's a dance that's become both exhausting and unavoidable. Quickly tidying up your background, remembering to take yourself off mute to speak, and trying desperately to not just stare at your own video feed. After 2020, we've all become well-versed in the Zoom tango.
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