November 13 2023, 10:47

I wonder why no service like Zoom, Teams, Slack, etc. has a feature for mutual screen sharing – when A shows their screen to B, and B shows their screen to A. Ideally, if it were possible to take control over each other’s computers, moving each other’s mouse and typing on each other’s keyboard. If anyone knows such services, please share. All existing ones are somehow unidirectional. One shares, the other watches.

Examples from the comments:

Take programmers, for instance. They need to find the cause of some bug. Together. Constantly, either I or a colleague would find some clues. In logs, in the code. And with an open mic, you can instantly say “look what I found.” He would say something like “nonsense, we’ve seen this a long time ago, definitely not related. But I’m looking over here…”

Or designers brainstorming in their own Illustrator.

Or one teaching another how to draw in Illustrator or Krita.

Or two people analyzing a large PDF and clarifying various things with each other, finding it useful to see what the other is looking at.

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