![]() The idea behind the autocue is a fairly simple one. Roll forward to 2020 though, and with lots of us now working from home and participating in non-stop meetings, I thought it was time to make matters into my own hands. I saw on Twitter only yesterday that Microsoft has apparently delivered something similar in the Surface Pro X with a feature they’re calling "Eye Contact". ![]() There will be a camera in the four corners of the screen and digital magic will stitch together a coherent moving image of you with eyes pointing ‘naturally’ at the camera. The hubby has more recently suggested it’ll be delivered via algorithm instead. I remember saying I’d race out and buy two the day they hit the market (so my two monitors matched). I theorised that the fix would be when a screen vendor figured out how to place a camera mid-screen directly behind the glass. ![]() Thankfully the NBN has delivered on the first component here in Oz, but technology has so far failed to come through on the second, and so most of us participate in video calls with the participants all looking off to the side while you’re talking to them. It quickly occurred to me that this wasn’t going to take off until we had two things: 1) the upload bandwidth to support a decent outgoing video stream and 2) the ability to look at the incoming video of the person you were speaking with, whilst at the same time staring directly down the lens of the camera. My introduction to desktop video came back in the days of OCS 2007 R1. ![]()
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