Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

["Spackman, Chris" <chris@osugisakae.com>]

On 2020/04/03 at 11:16am, Petric Frank wrote:

> Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user
> normally looks at the screen. As result the communication partner(s)
> see him not looking at the camera.

> Idea: Use two cameras positioned left and right or top and bottom of
> the screen. Combine the two video streams and generate a third stream
> having a virtual camera positioned at the middle of the screen.

> Result: Better communication. The partners always looking in their
> eyes. At the same time the screen contents can be viewed.

I think this would be fun to try, but I don't have any idea the actual
feasibility.

Moreover, I believe Apple tried something similar, very briefly, with
Face Time. I think it just used processing to try to "fix" where the
eyes were looking. My understanding is that it creeped everyone out and
no one liked it. Probably an uncanny vallley thing. So, they dropped
it. (IIRC, I heard that on TWIT a while back.)

Maybe two cameras could do it better, though?

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