UK company GreenEyes has launched a desktop videophone which it claims is the most affordable way to achieve "eye-to-eye" communication in real-time. The drawback of conventional desktop videoconferencing systems is that they lack the ability to achieve smooth eye contact in real-time conditions because the camera and the viewed image are physically separate from one another, as in a webcam setup.
This creates an unnatural disjunction, where the viewer is always looking not at the camera itself, but at the image of the other person, which hampers its usefulness as a tool for high-quality communication. The Eye Catcher 3.5 solves this problem by reflecting the image of the person being called onto a mirror screen, behind which lies the camera lens at eye-height. This means that the user is always looking directly at the person to whom they are speaking.
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