Zoom Escaper, Unique Application to Escape Meeting Zoom

KOMPAS.com – The Covid-19 pandemic has made most activities that involve face-to-face interactions, virtually diverted. Such as work meetings to teaching and learning activities are now carried out online using applications video conference.

One application that is widely used is Zoom. Although it is quite practical because it can be done from home, sometimes meeting activities online can cause fatigue and boredom. This is commonly referred to as “Zoom Fatigue”.

Well, for those of you who feel bored and want to run away during a meeting using Zoom, there is a unique application that can be used, namely Zoom Escaper.

This application was made by an artist from New York, United States named Sam Lavigne. The way this application works is quite simple.

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Zoom Escaper allows users to create fake noises during a meeting. Thus, the voice can serve as an excuse to leave Zoom’s ongoing meeting.

In this application, there are as many as eight types of fake nuisance noises for the user to choose from.

The eight audio effects available consist of echo sounds, baby cries, strong wind sounds, building construction sounds, intermittent connections, someone crying sounds, dog barking, and urinating sounds.

How to use Zoom Escaper

To be able to use this audio effect, users can visit the Zoom Escaper site via the following link.

Furthermore, users are also required to download an additional application called VB-Audio which is available on that page. This application serves as a bridge to deliver audio effects from the Zoom Escaper website to the Zoom meeting.

If VB-Audio has been installed, the user has to change the settings output that on the Zoom Escaper page becomes “VB Cable (virtual)”.

After that, click the “start” button on the Zoom Escaper page. Once active, you can choose what fake noises you want to use.

Lavigne also explains how to use Zoom Escaper in a video uploaded through the channel YouTube his.

Apart from Zoom Escaper, Lavigne has also made various other “distraction” applications. In 2017, Lavigne has created an application called “The Good Life”.

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