Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-makes-you-look-really-funny-when-it-bugs-out dept.

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."

2 of 111 comments (clear)

  1. Beta Preview by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxNTM1/z/0DkAAMXQHeBSD6I4/$(KGrHqIOKpMFIJv(N8KvBSD6I3QPTw~~60_35.JPG?set_id=880000500F

  2. Re:there's always looking right at the camera by asylumx · · Score: 4, Funny

    If both people are only looking at the camera, why bother even displaying a picture at all? Nobody is looking at it... Except the NSA perhaps.