What are the most unique ways to hold a video conference?

@maguay

With in-person events mostly canceled this year, video conferences have never been more important. There's the standard group Zoom calls, but then there are also a ton of unique, new new takes on what a video conference could be, including:

• SpatialChat is perhaps the most unique option, as a 3D audio app. Up to 50 people hang out in a virtual room, and can move around during a call to hear other. You'll overhear others' conversations, and can move to join them, or could all gather around the main speaker for a talk. Could be good for hangouts, meet-and-greet type stuff—or could get crazy
• Icebreaker lets 8 people on the stage presenting at once with up to 200 attendees, or you can split into 1-1 calls. Good for roundtables or group activities.
• Airmeet is built more for networking events. Group people into tables while waiting, let people "go backstage" to chat with hosts, then host event. Accept questions then bring people on to talk about them.
• Shindig is built for live events with attendees joining in groups. People go into a waiting room first, pick people to hang out with, then get invited into the full event together. Could work well to say have 3 university teams meet together, while showing how's in which group.
• Hopin is built for a modern take on events with group side-calls, custom branding, and an event schedule with separate videos per talk. There's also a virtual "Expo" area with virtual vendor booths—perhaps to share prerecorded talks, or build something unique.
• Rally is for virtual roundtables. Let up to 35 people group up and then swap between "tables" to join other conversations.
• Crowdcast helps you teach live classes, with live question/answers and tools to broadcast to other live social streaming. You can sell events, and promote them through Crowdcast's homepage.
• eWebinar is built to record videos that are almost "make your own adventure" classes, for "interactive" pre-recorded sessions. Instead of live videos, you record different options to let viewers steer their webinar to feel like it's live.

Or you could have a more normal webinar, perhaps embedded into your site:

• Zoom has webinars—and recently added picture-in-picture mode, too, and can stream to other live video services automatically. Wildly, up to 100 people can talk at once, and up to 10k can listen. (GoToWebinar, WebEx, and more are also options here.)
• Whereby is a Hangouts/Zoom replacement (formerly Appear.in), where you just share a room link and let up to 50 people join in. Cool thing is that you can build it into your site with its API.
• Daily takes that further—it's just an API to add live videos to your site, for up to 200 participants at a time.
• Dacast is another tool to build video into your site, seems more popular with edu and enterprise.

Then you have new tools to add effects to videos, including:

• Unscreen lets you remove background from any video, for picture-in-picture effects in your pre-recorded videos.
• mmhmm makes existing Zoom/Meet/YouTube Live videos better—with tools to collaboratively present with others, create picture-in-picture effects, and build more immersive shows.

Got any other cool conferencing tools you've tried—or have you tried any of these tools and have thoughts on how they worked for your team?

Would love to hear the best online events you've attended and the tools that made it special!