Software brings eye contact to Skype, with a little help from Kinect

Skype has been around for ten years now. Once a science fiction dream, the video calling service has 300 million users making two billion minutes of video calls a day. The only problem is, most of them can't look each other in the eye. Claudia Kuster, a doctoral student at the Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich, and her team are developing a way to bring eye contact to Skype and similar video services with software that alters the caller's on-screen image to give the illusion that they’re looking straight at the camera... Continue Reading Software brings eye contact to Skype, with a little help from Kinect

Section: Telecommunications

Tags: Computers, ETH Zurich, Kinect, Skype, Smartphones, Software, Tablet

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