🎥 New Streaming apps that are better than Zoom [2020]
For Remote Workers, Designers, Gamers, Vloggers, and Salespeople here is the ultimate list of new modern players in the communication streaming world.
2020 is remote. Period.
Maybe you have years working with Zoom or just a couple of months but as you know communication is changing and in an ultra remote world with modern communication tools like Jira, Slack, WhatsApp, and more.
In 2014 I created with amazing developers a journalism streaming app called Jaskr since that I realized that streaming apps like Zoom will be the future of communication but now we have better technology so we can dream in new use cases. Here is a list of amazing companies with new features for you:
Airmet
Airmeet is an all-in-one platform for community managers to host interactive online events that feel as real and authentic as in-person events. This is the Airmet claim and it’s true!
This platform is easy to get started for event organizers and easy to join for attendees. Works in all modern browsers. No downloads! (Great)
Since people are increasingly using virtual events to reach their audience, a subconscious comparison of the experience with an in-person event is inevitable. Airmeet’s “Social Lounge” lets attendees “join a table” and interact with each other over video.
Attendees can grab a seat at any virtual table and video chat with fellow attendees.
Tandem.chat
Tandem is for Spontaneous Conversations. The mission of Tandem is to makes technology that gives distributed teams the flow of in-person collaboration.
I tested this platform with a full dynamic team and worked great!
The situation here is that Distributed teams rarely have opportunities for spontaneous conversations and you know the importance of have fast calls and Zoom sucks for this situation.
Tandem focuses on Psychological safety — the freedom to speak up without fear of negative criticism or consequence. With this in hand, you can download the app and in the right corner, you will have your team members and then just start talking at any time!
Loom
Loom is bringing video messaging to work. This platform is special for Engineers, Salespeople, Customer Service, and Design teams. In 2020 more than 4 million people across 90,000 companies choose Loom as their communication tool.
With Loom you can take quick videos of bugs, build issues, quick demos of a feature being completed for the team. Completely async. You don’t have to record yourself. With Loom, you can capture your screen, voice, and face and instantly share your video in less time than it would take to type an email.
The main difference between Loom and Zoom is that Loom is asynchronous, while Zoom is synchronous. Asynchronous communication isn’t simultaneous; people can consume, process, and respond on their own time, like an old-fashioned letter. It doesn’t require scheduling or coordinating.
Discord
Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang out and stay close with your friends and communities.
This platform is extremely famous in the gaming community or open source but there are a lot of other communities using Discord for his amazing features. Discord is maybe the most UX centered platform for live streaming and chatting.
Discord offers you the possibility of creating a site to belong to. Your Discord server is your home, which you share only with the special people you invite.
Around
Quick, high-impact video calls for a new era of work. With Around’s laptop-first technology, video calls no longer make remote co-workers feel like second-class citizens.
Around is a new video chat software that crops participants down to just circles that float on your screen so you have space for other apps. Designed for laptops, Around uses auto-zoom and noise cancelling to keep your face and voice in focus.
Around finds your face even as you move! — I love this feature — cropping out clutter and other background distractions. Around recognizes all common noises like sirens, barking dogs, washing machines, kitchen activity, laptop fans and applies AI-based filtering to suppress them while prioritizing human voice.
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