They truly got into the spirit. And in the second party one of the students took the microphone and she got everyone to start singing Christmas songs, which to me helped bring up the whole spirit of why we were there."
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It took us around two to three hours before we felt completely comfortable speaking intothemicrophone, and predicting exactly what would happen on the other end.
Obama, meanwhile, is like the rock star who's realized that he can just scream unintelligible words intothemicrophone between songs, and the entire stadium will still scream.
Plenty of thought appears to have gone intothe design: For example, there's an extra laser microphone under the keyboard, complementing the two mics next to the camera, allowing the software to cancel out any noise you might make while typing on a video conference.