In this video, David covers:
- Why eye contact is so important
- Why no one is talking about it
- Why current efforts to improve eye contact aren’t satisfactory
- What needs to be done to really fix the problem
- Tips and tricks to improve your eye contact
#13: Eye Contact – Secrets to Improve Your Videoconferencing Experience
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Good video, David
Apple was granted a couple of patents 8+ years ago.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/08/apple_files_patent_for_camera_hidden_behind_display
It feels like I’m the only little bird sitting in the corner chirping about eye contact, both in writing about it and working on it. Here is an article I wrote about eye contact after I read yet another article telling folks to look into the camera: http://hellarddesign.blogspot.com/2015/02/bad-video-conferencing-advice.html
Apple has this terrible habit of patenting my ideas a few years before I first think of them. 😉
All good relevant points, but my friend Jeff Machtig’s company DVE (http://www.dvetelepresence.com/) solved this some time ago with the camera behind the screen.
Look at the Silhoute series and other inovative solutions.
Good point Randy. I’m a big fan of the DVE line of products. They use a variation of the Pepper’s Ghost technique I described, so their solutions require a bit of depth (space to hide the camera behind the angled one-way mirror). Although to be fair, the DVE Silhouette model really isn’t too thick, they did a good job with it.
I think the DVE solutions are ideal for kiosks or for executive systems, but the typical desktop needs an affordable flat screen solution.