[3D Focus]

The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin has made a breakthrough in direct eye to eye contact for video conferencing via a software module and two or three cameras. It is the result of years of research and the Fraunhofer HHI expect it to be implemented into consumer laptop.

… Called the Virtual Eye Contact Engine, the software module analyses the scene in real-time 3D from three cameras mounted around the display. It computes the depth structure information of the person’s head which is used to generate a 3D model. The 3D model is then used to compute the view of the virtual camera for both parties and the rendered output appears to show each person looking directly at each other. …

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