Beauty and tragedy at a kindergarten Zoom dance party

My son had another event this morning -- this time a treasure hunt over Google Meet. There were 16 wonderful, jubilant kids on the call, but only 9 would show on the screen at any given time, which seemed such a shame.

We should really expect to be able to see everyone on the call, in Kindergarten calls, and in meetings at work too. We humans are so well tuned to read each others' facial expressions that we have no problem recognizing reactions/sentiments in small video feeds of our friends and colleagues, even at avatar-size resolutions.

Internally, we've done some tests/prototyping where it's completely workable to have 100+ feeds on the screen all at once, even with some "hero" space reserved for the couple of most recent active speakers.