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On 2020/04/03 at 11:16am, Petric Frank wrote: |
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> Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user |
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> normally looks at the screen. As result the communication partner(s) |
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> see him not looking at the camera. |
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> Idea: Use two cameras positioned left and right or top and bottom of |
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> the screen. Combine the two video streams and generate a third stream |
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> having a virtual camera positioned at the middle of the screen. |
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> Result: Better communication. The partners always looking in their |
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> eyes. At the same time the screen contents can be viewed. |
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I think this would be fun to try, but I don't have any idea the actual |
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feasibility. |
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Moreover, I believe Apple tried something similar, very briefly, with |
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Face Time. I think it just used processing to try to "fix" where the |
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eyes were looking. My understanding is that it creeped everyone out and |
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no one liked it. Probably an uncanny vallley thing. So, they dropped |
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it. (IIRC, I heard that on TWIT a while back.) |
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Maybe two cameras could do it better, though? |
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Chris Spackman chris@××××××××××.com |
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ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Schools |
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ESL Instructor Columbus State Community College |
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Japan Exchange and Teaching Program Wajima, Ishikawa 1995-1998 |
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Linux user since 1998 Linux User #137532 |
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