Who needs Zoom when you can have conference calls in Red Dead Redemption 2?

Since it looks like a lot of people are going to be working from home for a while longer, now’s a good time to embrace cutting-edge video conferencing technology. While we’ve seen excellent examples of how best to use software like Zoom to improve virtual meetings by, say, punching them up with horror movie jump scares, replacing callers with digital clones, or having Conan O’Brien stop by to yell at people, even these practices are limited by format.
As this piece from Rock Paper Shotgun makes clear, the most forward-thinking remote workers have figured out a better, more unorthodox approach: Just getting everyone together in Red Dead Redemption 2 for cowboy-themed meetings.
The piece profiles Viviane Schwarz, who tweeted out a thread discussing how their team had done away with Zoom in favor of “having editorial meetings” around the campfire in Red Dead 2.