After a year of working from home, many of us are tired of the endless laboriousness video conferencing. Now we have an excuse to get out of these conference calls with a new tool called Zoom Escaper
Digital artist Sam Lavigne created the incredibly simple web app, first reported by The edge All you have to do is install an audio plugin called VB audio of the product web page, thereafter make sure you have selected the correct audio devices, then open Zoom as normal. From there, you can play a collection of sound effects in Zoom that are designed to annoy or annoy your colleagues, seemingly to the point where your colleagues will ask you to leave the video call.
S.one of the sound effects are a little bit simpler than others. Clips of a crying baby and an active construction seem to be the most sure-a way to get out of a video meeting, while the sound from Bad Connection seems quite realistic to the choppy sound people can hear when you have a weak internet.
But other effects, like a man crying or the sound of peeing, may raise more questions from your colleagues than a sympathetic encouragement to log out, and if used at an inconvenient time, you may be sent to HR instead. Fortunately, if none of Zoom Escaper’s preset clips have the intended effect, you can also manually upload your own sound bitesAfter all, the more you tailor sound effects to your specific situation, the more believable your excuse is.
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And while Zoom Escaper certainly cannot be used to get out of everything video conference for the near future, it can be a handy tool for those phone calls where you just can’t handle the nonsense anymore.
But to me, the most impressive thing about Lavigne’s work is his dedication to reducing Zoom in a quest for a better work-life balance. IIn addition to Zoom Escaper, Lavigne has also created Slowly hot computer and Zoom Deleter, the latter of which routinely checks your computer to see if Zoom is installed, and automatically destroys it if Zoom is detected.
Lavigne told The Verge that Some of the core principles of his art are “deliberate delay, reduction of productivity and output, and self-sabotage.” Ionce the boundaries between private life and work life have essentially been erased, die are philosophies that almost everyone can appreciate.