Correct eye contact in videos by redirecting the eyes to look at the camera

Re:Correct eye contact in videos by redirecting the eyes to ... by IanCal on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:43AM (#41858420)

I get the general philosophical point but to take a fun counterargument - cameras don't record the moment. They record a very narrow snapshot in time. One you, or anyone around you, may not recognise.

Have you ever looked at a group of friends and thought "ONE OF YOU IS BLINKING"? No. Yet it's quite common to have a photo where at least one person is mid-blink. The 30-year lifespan of that photo includes the milliseconds they were blinking. Is it untrue to have a picture where two people were not blinking and standing side by side? They did in real life, in those same poses, but fractions of a second apart. Is it a failure to capture reality by having a picture of them with their eyes open? Maybe - or maybe the blending of several moments is more true to the original situation than any specific snapshot could be.

> I feel hardware technology can improve further to allow under-the-LED-display cameras .... so that we can actually look at both the camera and the screen at the same time.

That doesn't fully solve the problem because you'd be looking at the middle of the screen not at the person talking to you in a group.

> Video should help people bond as people with as genuine body lanuage as possible.

I agree, but having people be able to actually look at each other is surely part of this.

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Re:Correct eye contact in videos by redirecting the eyes to ... by JohnFen on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @09:57AM (#41859086)

> cameras don't record the moment. They record a very narrow snapshot in time.

Isn't a "moment" a very narrow snapshot in time by definition?

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Re:Correct eye contact in videos by redirecting the eyes to ... by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @12:45PM (#41861162)

Colloquially, "the moment" also includes the context, both immediate and general.

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Re:Correct eye contact in videos by redirecting the eyes to ... by albert_e on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:55AM (#41858544)

> That doesn't fully solve the problem because you'd be looking at the middle of the screen not at the person talking to you in a group.

Repeating my comment on a sibling ...

Once we have technology to put a camera under a screen without sacrificing display quality ... we will not stop at one camera. There will be an array of cameras covering say every 2x2 inch square of your screen.

Just see how many cameras are on todays phones. Same can happen with new camera tech too.

Also there will be a huge commercial driver to put multiple cameras under the screen -- all apps and marketers can track your precise gaze. Ads will pause unless you are actually watching them. I will hate it but it feels inevitable

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Re:Correct eye contact in videos by redirecting the eyes to ... by vlovich123 on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @09:05AM (#41858637)

Honestly I’ll take the software correction approach. Seems cheaper. I’ll also challenge about whether people actually care about the philosophical position about live editing. Zoom filters to ade makeup and other realtime and non realtime filters are popular. Movies have special effects. I think this purism isn’t helpful given what it seems that people actually want, not to mention that the concept of “true image” is so tenuous (eg no picture of the aurora borealis or the Milky Way is actually what your eye would see).

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Re:Correct eye contact in videos by redirecting the eyes to ... by ballenf on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @09:21AM (#41858754)

Artwork can be more true to reality than a photograph.

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