NVIDIA releases 'Eye Contact' function that adjusts to 'always looking at camera' in real time
It is said that moderate eye contact gives a good impression to others, and eye contact is important for smooth conversation. NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4 , a tool for distribution provided by NVIDIA, has added the function ' Eye Contact ' that tracks the line of sight by using AI and maintains eye contact by always looking at the camera.
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NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4 has released Eye Contact, a video function that uses AI to automatically maintain the camera's line of sight by estimating and aligning the line of sight. With Eye Contact, controlled by software and replaced with simulated eyes, the eyes on the broadcast screen are always looking at the camera, even if they are looking away in real life.
In addition, the replaced eyes reproduce the original eye color, and when you actually blink, the eyes on the screen blink as well, creating a smooth transition between the simulated and real eyes. It can be switched.
The video below introduces NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4's Eye Contact, and you can see that it is naturally adjusted to the camera's gaze in real time.
NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4 Update Featuring Eye Contact-YouTube
However, many users are negative about the Eye Contact function, and one user says, ``It's horrible to maintain eye contact while reading text that is clearly not displayed on the screen by the distributor.''
I too, have always wanted streamers to maintain a terrifying level of unbroken eye contact while reading text that obviously isn't displayed inside their webcams
— The D-Pad | year of the fnuuy (@downrightdpad) January 24, 2023
Also, former newscaster Scott Baker said, ``Always looking at the camera and making eye contact is not the right approach to communication. You have to look away,' he said.
As a TV news anchor for decades ... this is not quite the right approach.
— Scott Baker (@bakerlink) January 24, 2023
To make communication effective ... you have to naturally break eye contact with the camera (just as you would in real life) fairly often.
NVIDIA is not the first company to introduce the function to always look at the camera in video calls and distribution, and in 2019 Apple introduced the 'eye contact' function to the video call application ' FaceTime '. It seems that the same negative opinion as Eye Contact was received when introducing the eye contact function.
NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4 Eye Contact is in beta at the time of article creation, NVIDIA said, ``Since there are countless combinations of different eye colors and lighting for each person, we would like to further improve eye contact based on user feedback. I am.”
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