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Apple's FaceTime video chat software comes with a new software feature in iOS 13 that goes by the euphonious name of \"attention correction\": If the user looks at the screen instead of the camera during a video chat, the software corrects their gaze so that they appear to be looking at the camera - and thus maintain digital eye contact.<\/p>\n
The effect is intended to solve a common problem in video conferences: namely that the conference participants look at each other on the monitor and thus look past each other instead of exchanging glances via the camera.<\/p>\n
Eye movements in directions outside the screen are transmitted normally. Attention correction can also be completely deactivated.<\/p>\n
In technical terms, the eye correction is an augmented reality trick familiar from Snaps and Facebook's face filters: a depth map of the face is created with the 3D face measurement \"TrueDepth\" of the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR models.<\/p>\n
Apple's AR software ARKit can then precisely superimpose the digital eyes over the real ones in this depth map.<\/p>\n
Apple may be providing Facebook's research department with an interesting example of implementation here: the company is working on very realistic VR avatars that even synchronise eye movements with the original person, but do not yet offer direct eye contact due to camera distortions.<\/p>\n
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