Now that virtual meetings are firmly entrenched in workplace culture, tech companies aren’t stopping at Zoom and Google Meet.

New products are already reinventing the typical video conferencing interface where each participant occupies their own square on a grid. Room, a new product created by Cevat Yerli, the former CEO of video game developer Crytek, is one of them.

“Due to the recent rapid virtualization of corporate interactions, we have pushed ourselves into these flat, two-dimensional spaces,” Yerli said in a statement.(Opens in a new window).

“Room has been designed to encourage people to interact in inspiring 3D virtual meetings and ultimately support and enhance unique cultural norms. Not as a replacement for the real thing, but as second best.”

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