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Video chats are common, but actual eye contact is currently impossible: you either look at the other person's eyes, and thus you appear to be looking off, or yo
by corecoder 10y ago
Video chats are common, but actual eye contact is currently impossible: you either look at the other person's eyes, and thus you appear to be looking off, or you look at the camera, and then they see you looking at them but you aren't actually looking at them in the eye.
There's currently research going on to find out if there is any way to make eye contact possible, but I don't know of any proposed way so far.
- nradov 10y agoI would think the only practical approach would be to precisely position multiple webcams around the perimeter of the screen, and then use software to merge and manipulate the video streams in real time to simulate eye contact.
- inimino 10y agoOr put the camera in the middle of the screen, or just wait for full 3D immersion.
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- dorfsmay 10y agoFair enough. My main point was that being able to look at a person while talking to them, even slightly off due to the constraint you mention, makes a big difference and is already a huge step in the "future".