It's a way to just be together, It's kinda just a way to share space and breakup the loneliness of covid and you can just ask questions to the team.

I've not done it as an established thing, but had standups where we pivoted to working on issues and as the issue got sorted everyone just chatted and enjoyed each other's company whilst moving onto other work. 3 hours later it's lunch and you end a mega video chat.

This most likely doesn’t mean that every person has their camera on 24/7, the setups I’ve seen have a “room” that is always open then people can enter and leave whenever.

Tools like Remotion or the virtual office apps with spatial sound and movable avatars also aim to lower the friction and make informal chats easier.