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Re: Eyechat

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Post by roywiggins »

filcuk wrote: post #57
colordrops wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The claim why these aren't adopted is that they aren't high enough quality. Why not include both a standard and undersceen front-facing camera and get the best of both worlds? Could use the under-screen camera for video chat and the standard one for everything else. Or even use some AI algorithm to merge the data from the standard camera with the under-screen one to increase quality.

People want quality selfies more than eye to eye calls

The other problem is that having an under-display camera doesn't stop everyone else's eyes from pointing in the wrong direction, so even if you prioritize eye contact you'd also have to convince all your friends to, as well.

Re: Eyechat

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Post by sdenton4 »

BossingAround wrote: post #46
pcranaway wrote: post #32

To the people worried about their data being sent to google or whatever (I'm not sure what they're actually worried about) -- the extraction of your eyes is done client side, using a seemingly very well made ML model running on Tensorflow which fits in under 15mb. The feed of your camera is transmitted "directly" to the person you're looking at (well, no, not really directly, it uses WebRTC, so your data passes throu…

So even after this thought process, it comes down to "do you trust the author" (just like before it)... Not unreasonable to answer either way if you ask me.

Yeah, we should probably add a blockchain to the design so that we don't have to trust anyone.

Re: Eyechat

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Post by durumu »

thornewolf wrote: post #63
miguelxt wrote: post #9

Another hit from Neal. I wonder (and envy, in a good way) where does he gets the time to work and all this wonderful little games.

there was a highly similar project to this on HN a few months ago. his previous project (infinite craft) was one of the first things i ever heard people talk about wrt LLMs. His skill is in execution. I think he finds inspiration from the people around him.

Was this the one you were thinking of? https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-12-stranger-video/

Re: Eyechat

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Post by namanyayg »

eieio wrote: post #69
wonger_ wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305787

I made Stranger Video (the linked item)! Neal's a friend of mine and I gave him a (small) hand with eyechat. We were originally going to collaborate more on eyechat but then One Million Checkboxes[1] blew up and I had to bow out [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869

I'd love to know more. Did he reach out to you? Was it the other way around?

What's the difference in two's codebases, if any?

Re: Eyechat

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Post by eieio »

namanyayg wrote: post #74
eieio wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made Stranger Video (the linked item)! Neal's a friend of mine and I gave him a (small) hand with eyechat. We were originally going to collaborate more on eyechat but then One Million Checkboxes[1] blew up and I had to bow out [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869

I'd love to know more. Did he reach out to you? Was it the other way around? What's the difference in two's codebases, if any?

we meet up on occasion to kick around ideas[1] - we're both in nyc and the 'people doing creative tech stuff in nyc' world is not that big. I think(?) we first met right after I made stranger video; we've batted around ideas about it for a while. Pretty sure this idea was from him!

There's probably 0 overlap in the codebase - 100% (or close to it) of the code is from Neal (the only code I wrote for this was a very early prototype that cropped out just the eyes, instead of the bar you see now). I sent him a couple of snippets from my codebase early on but mostly just gave pointers on my tech stack / chatted about some of the problems I ran into. Given the size of Neal's audience the default scale for a project he launches is pretty big!

Anyway, mostly wanted to clarify that the similarities between this and stranger video are intentional :)

[1] this is where the idea for one million checkboxes actually came from!

Re: Eyechat

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Post by lupire »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #51
jbullock35 wrote: post #50

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We’ve needed this – easy, direct eye contact – for quite a long time. I keep waiting for someone to develop it. I think that Apple has a relevant patent, but I don’t know how much content is in the patent, and I’ve never heard that Apple has done anything with it.

Apple uses it for its Eye Contact feature in FaceTime

Apple applies a filter to make fake eye contact.

Re: Eyechat

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Post by lupire »

roywiggins wrote: post #71
filcuk wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People want quality selfies more than eye to eye calls

The other problem is that having an under-display camera doesn't stop everyone else's eyes from pointing in the wrong direction, so even if you prioritize eye contact you'd also have to convince all your friends to, as well.

OK but that's how regular humans work too.

Re: Eyechat

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Post by namanyayg »

zikduruqe wrote: post #61
namanyayg wrote: post #39

It's not working for me at all, did it get hugged to death? I just see a black screen with "Eyes from $LOCATION" under it.

"Got Eem" - Worldcoin *for those that aren't familiar with Worldcoin.... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/technology/worldcoin-iris...

I know it's in jest but does worldcoin work with any regular phone camera?

I assumed it needs some sort of closeup high definition image

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