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Re:Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls by izacus on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:37AM (#24729781)
> I would imagine Apple doing this with FaceTime soon.

What's this claim based on? Last I looked into FaceTime tech, they didn't do anything special - their quality comes from use of H.265 and the fact that iOS devices have good quality HW encoding blocks which provide good compression at low bandwidths.

FaceTime stream is usually also low motion / change so it's possible to achieve very good compression even with basic quality. Although they still don't quite match the quality of AV1 powered Google Duo on very poor connections.

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Re:Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls by sebular on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:24AM (#24730177)
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I think the main reason you'd expect to see this on iOS is due to the additional Face ID sensors available on most of their devices. Presumably Apple could offer a version of this tech that features higher quality tracking and thus a more realistic and natural-looking final output.
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