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Re:Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention i... by marginalien on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:18PM (#33684819)
It is for that reason why online meeting tools like Zoom, MS Teams, etc., should provide an option to hide your own video from yourself – I believe one’s own video is a massive source of distraction from concentrating on other persons in a conversation.
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Re:Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention i... by stevage on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:05PM (#33685292)
Most of them do? Certainly Zoom does.
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Re:Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention i... by khazhoux on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:18PM (#33685427)
Teams does not. So annoying... I can't stop from looking at myself talking.
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Re:Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention i... by marginalien on Sunday November 20, 2022 @05:26PM (#33686131)
Same here.

From time to time I observe where other meeting participants look at and I feel like this is very, very common (you can tell by the specific corner a person is looking at in some of these applications)

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Re:Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention i... by pests on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:22PM (#33687918)
In the apps that allow it I just move myself under the camera on my laptop so it looks like I'm just looking into the camera. Or I hope that's what people think!
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Re:Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention i... by quickthrower2 on Monday November 21, 2022 @12:04AM (#33689007)
Slack has it now.
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