Improve Video Conferences

[samuelscheit]

The fundamental problem of video conferences is that you don't have eye to eye contact and no interpersonal interaction. This is the reason if someone asks a question looks into the camera and no one feels addressed.

There is not a real "solution" in MS Teams or zoom where you can reareange people in a chair/room like background, but you still look directly into the camera and don't feel addressed.

Solution

Virtual Eye contact

There is a new technology (AI) that adjusts the eye position to always look at the camera. We could use that concept by adjusting the eye to look at you only if the person is focusing you with e.g. mouse.

Virtual focus

If you hover over someone with your mouse the recipient will notice it and can create a feeling of a "virtual eye contact". To prevent someone focusing someone forever by forgetting the mouse over someone it should reset after a certain amount of time.

Whispering

If you have a video conference and don't wan't to share your thought with the whole audience (and possibly interrupt them) you should be able to "whisper" talk only to a certain person.

Virtual Rooms

Virtual Rooms that you can enter as a virtual character (or with your cam) combined with fosscord/fosscord-web-client#25 to make "real life" video conference rooms.