Like you probably, I have no desire to revisit the depths of the pandemic-except to use that time as a marker that can help us see how much progress communications tools have been making since then.
When everyone went home to work remotely, and was mostly unprepared for the task, the first major innovation in videoconferencing was background blur. And at the time, it really was a big and important innovation that helped people feel more comfortable working from a home that they probably had not set up to be broadcast on camera to their co-workers and clients all day long.
