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I tested out the eye contact beta and it made my face look different. I looked like a different person with different eyes. This is in addition to the weird eye wiggle thing you were seeing. I am not very impressed with it as of yet.

However, I do use the noise suppression within Nvidia Broadcast. Other than the app crashing every so often it has been fairly reliable for me.
 
I just watched a few minutes of your video, Jarred. Skipped around a bit. Honestly, I didn't think it looked bad, for the most part. The only thing that creeped me out was that it looked like you had no irises half the time. The AI didn't seem to pick up your eye color, and it looked like you just had huge pupils with no color. That was in fullscreen though.
Watching the small non-fullscreen video, the little quirks aren't so noticeable. Usually when I chat with someone, I make their video about 5 inches; not much bigger than the embedded video. I doubt I'd notice if someone had it on.
However, I can imagine that if I were watching MYSELF on camera, it would probably be pretty weird. 😆 My webcam is borked and I haven't replaced it just yet, so can't try it right now. I look forward to it, though!

At the same time, I don't think it would be necessary for my use case... whether chatting or recording an LP, I don't think anyone cares if I look around for a few seconds.
It is certainly... interesting. Yeah. I'll just say "interesting", and that's all. 😀 I laughed at the part where you said you were looking straight forward, but the AI eyes (A-eyes?) kept shifting left and right. Hahahaha...
 
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When you're presenting (like on YT), the making and breaking of eye contact is part of an engaging style. This is not for that in my opinion. However, there are people that are invited to 20+ person meetings all day long, and prefer to multitask during those meetings. This should be pretty good for those.
 
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AgentBirdnest said:
Honestly, I didn't think it looked bad, for the most part.
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I think that's the problem, though, right? It doesn't look too bad...for the most part...but there's just enough there that it stays firmly in uncanny valley territory for me 🥴

But, as Jarred pointed out yesterday, we've never met in real life! So, for all I know, Jarred is a robot.
 
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Like most tech denizens, I'm very interested in seeing where we can apply AI/ML to take away significant pain.

To me, this is an interesting novelty, and as many people have noticed, it's creepy/hilarious a lot of the time.

While this app (and those that are coming, or preceeded it [like the iOS 14+ settings for "eye contact" adjustments over FaceTime, there are options to both look at the camera AND see the person (or people) rather than faking it like this.

Traditional teleprompters are one way to go (but expensive, finicky, and take up quite a bit of space).

The uncanny valley of this NVIDIA beta... as most people are saying, seems psychopathically creepy ("murder eyes" is my favorite description).

Or a teleprompter alternative like PlexiCam (I'm a co-founder), is another option.

Had a nice long thread on teleprompter/eye-contact alternatives several months ago > View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Zoom/comments/rrq7a1/any_webcam_experiences_with_center_cam_or_plexicam/


We're now at over 20,000 sold, and are continuing to scale up fulfillment to meet the demand.

No solution is right for everyone, but if you want a teleprompter-like approach, without the teleprompter pain, just take your favorite camera, put it in the middle of your screen (more or less), position your windows around the camera, and you're good to go!
 
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Thanks for testing, @JarredWaltonGPU . I didn't watch too much, but noticed your eyes shift as you blinked. Overall, it looks okay with the video window sized a few inches. I don't watch it fullscreen.

IMO, it's a pretty cool filter to have in your toolset, if you do video production and have to deal with footage submitted by someone you don't direct or can't have re-film it.
 
bit_user said:
Did you send in a review sample? Maybe they (or Tom's Guide) will write a review of it.
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I've attempted submitting through the review process a few times in the last 18 months, and haven't gotten a reply.

Try, try again...

Firing up my ChatGPT review seeking bot!
(just kidding, ChatGPT is fascinating tech too, but I prefer to reach out like a human.)
 
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dankeldsen said:
I've attempted submitting through the review process a few times in the last 18 months, and haven't gotten a reply.

Try, try again...

Firing up my ChatGPT review seeking bot!
(just kidding, ChatGPT is fascinating tech too, but I prefer to reach out like a human.)
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You've been seen. I'm probably not the person for this, but I'll pass along to the others. This is certainly more Tom's Guide than Tom's Hardware (IMO), and we're pretty separate as far as talking to each other.
 
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JarredWaltonGPU said:
You've been seen. I'm probably not the person for this, but I'll pass along to the others. This is certainly more Tom's Guide than Tom's Hardware (IMO), and we're pretty separate as far as talking to each other.
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Thanks Jarred, I appreciate your response, and completely understandable that the two sites are fairly independent.
 
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