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

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 3, 2013 @06:55AM 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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Don't mess with the eyes by Russ1642 · 2013-09-03 07:24 · 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.