“…This has led to multiple new commercial platforms that use stronger and more flexible spatial metaphors, including Gather [14], SpatialChat [55], Sprout [56], Remo [48], Teamflow [59], Wonder [65] or Ohyay [45]. In parallel, research prototypes have improved our understanding of spatial metaphors [16,23,24,64] and introduced new ways of interacting with live and recorded video streams [18,25,60]. Finally, some popular solutions preserve the legacy gallery and speaker views but also integrate task-space apps and add-ons into their workspaces, including Zoom Apps [67,68], Teams Apps [39], Miro's add-on video-conferencing features [40], and Google's integration of Meet and Docs [17].…”