Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect 111
Zothecula writes "Skype has been around for ten years now. Once a science fiction dream, the video calling service has 300 million users making two billion minutes of video calls a day. One problem: most of them can't look each other in the eye. Claudia Kuster, a doctoral student at the Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich, and her team are developing a way to bring eye contact to Skype and similar video services with software that alters the caller's on-screen image to give the illusion that they're looking straight at the camera."
Re:there's always looking right at the camera (Score:4, Insightful)
Then you're not looking the other person in the eyes. Hence no "eye-contact."
Don't mess with the eyes (Score:5, Insightful)
They're putting out software that changes what your eyes look like so that it looks like you're not looking up a little bit. This will not work. It will make people's eyes look wrong and creepy. We are perfectly attuned to looking at eyes and anything that's a bit off will get noticed immediately. Start by fixing people's teeth or something but not the eyes.
Re:NO WAR FOR BIG OIL (Score:3, Insightful)
Calling Obama "the left" is a joke.
Signed,
a Canadian.