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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."

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  1. Re:there's always looking right at the camera by Atzanteol · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then you're not looking the other person in the eyes. Hence no "eye-contact."

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    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

    - Charles Darwin
  2. Don't mess with the eyes by Russ1642 · · 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.

  3. Re:NO WAR FOR BIG OIL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Calling Obama "the left" is a joke.

    Signed,
    a Canadian.