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Someone needs to design vidconf hardware where (somehow) the camera is in the middle of the screen so you are looking directly into each other's eyes.
by lazyeye 7y ago
Someone needs to design vidconf hardware where (somehow) the camera is in the middle of the screen so you are looking directly into each other's eyes.
- hideo 7y agoThis exists in several forms ranging from TelePrompTer style settings to cameras embedded in the screen. They’re currently expensive but I’d expect to see them hitting the market in the next 5-10 years. There are also software/post-processing implementations of this out there which try to emulate eye contact. The ones I saw 4-5 years ago were definitely uncanny valley but there may be more happening there of late. This gets even more interesting in multi party situations where there may be 3+ locations with more than one person at each location
- asymmetric 7y ago> cameras embedded in the screen Seems like a privacy nightmare. You can’t have a hardware toggle to close the camera nor cover it with a piece of tape.
- berbec 7y agoThe Librem guys are making hardware with power switches for camera, GPS, etc. [1] 1: https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-hardware-kill-switches/ https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-h...
- isostatic 7y agoGet an autocue and set up your screen below and reflected, and camera as an external input.
- MarkMc 7y agoOr maybe just clever software trained to filter the video feed so the person's gaze is shifted up.