[HN Gopher] Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing ___________________________________________________________________ Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing Author : nsaje Score : 35 points Date : 2020-08-22 05:43 UTC (17 hours ago) (HTM) web link (hackaday.com) (TXT) w3m dump (hackaday.com) | nkristoffersen wrote: | Essentially a teleprompter. Been looking at doing something with | my external camera for all of the video calls these days. | | https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Teleprompters/ci/2122/N/4... | xyzzy_plugh wrote: | > Checkout is unavailable while we observe Shabbat. Please come | back when checkout reopens at 9:00 pm ET Sat Aug 22 | | Huh, I guess this never crossed my mind, but makes sense. TIL. | oojuliuso wrote: | Wouldn't surprise me if Apple's first to market with iPhones and | MacBooks with iSight cameras embedded in the display. But is it | even possible? Wouldn't the camera lens have to be of comparable | size to a display pixel? | dirtnugget wrote: | Well, sadly it makes the laptop basically unusable without | external mouse and keyboard. | kuon wrote: | Well, I really hate eye contact and never look people in the | eyes, so this wouldn't be something interesting for me. I wonder | if I am alone or if this is common. | mahathu wrote: | it's common for people suffering from autism spectrum | disorders, not so much in the general population. | dorkwood wrote: | It's funny how videos such as this, which are optimized for | engagement over learning, explain things in a backwards fashion. | Instead of explaining how the thing works, and then showing you | how to make the parts to build one yourself. They show you how to | make the parts, and only explain what it is you're building at | the very end. | dTal wrote: | Couldn't you lie the screen completely flat and build it the | other way (reflecting the screen and passing through the camera), | avoiding the keyboard problem? | CrazyStat wrote: | That's how traditional teleprompters work: screen below | reflecting off the half-silvered mirror, camera behind. | | Many laptop screens don't open completely flat, so that may not | work for this particular concept. | spankalee wrote: | With so much multi-image computational photography and video | processing these days, I've been wondering whether we could have | a multiple camera system (with cameras on the top, bottom, left, | and right of the screen) and a processor that can simulate a | camera in the center of the screen - or even dynamically moved to | the eyes of the caller. | | I know there's a bunch of research on viewpoint interpolation, | but how close might we be to a dedicated processor to be able do | this in a laptop, or at least specialized VC monitor? | ponker wrote: | Apple had this in a beta iOS and then removed it. | Mr_P wrote: | IOS 13 has a feature that can do something to that effect: | | https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/facetime-feature-in-... | rckoepke wrote: | Apparently all current attempts resulted in very, very uncanny | valleys. This thread mentions some current attempts (searching | hn.algolia.com for 'gaze correction' will return additional | threads). | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24151123https://news.yc... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-08-22 23:00 UTC)