Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing
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Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing
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#2Well, sadly it makes the laptop basically unusable without external mouse and keyboard.
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#3Essentially 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...
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#4Well, 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.
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#5It'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.
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#6Well, 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.
it's common for people suffering from autism spectrum disorders, not so much in the general population.
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#7Couldn'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?
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#8With 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?
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#9Couldn'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?
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.
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#10Wouldn'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?