![]() If anyone else fancies hacking together one of these, drop me a line – I’d be curious to see how well it works when Tweak the webcam settings in Skype to flip the video 90° vertically. Has a neat flexible base/clamp/grip thing that makes it pretty easy to flip, and the last thing I had to do was The webcam’s a Logitech Communicator Deluxe, which Held in place with blu-tak inside a home-made cardboard “shroud”. Staring over their head or down at their chest.Īnd here’s the actual contraption itself the glass is from one of those cheap postcard picture frames, and it’s just Pretty easy), and then when you look at the person you’re talking to, you’ll actually make eye contact instead of Glass exactly (my webcam has a tiny light next to the lens that shows up in the reflection, which makes this part Once Skype’s running, just drag the remote video window so it lines up behind the Looking at Skype - NOT at the webcam, which is flipped 90° and pointing straight down from inside theĬardboard gizmo on top of the screen – and yet the video feed shows me looking straight at the camera. I’ve wondered for a long time whether the same principleĬould solve the video-conferencing problem, so I decided to hack together a prototype to see if it would work… andĪlthough the image quality is pretty rough, it does actually work. Point is, teleprompters work on some pretty basic optics. Reflection when you look out of your house windows after dark, but you never see your reflection when it’s bright Of glass which is lit on one side and dark on the other actually behaves like a mirror – notice how you see your Yes, this is a bit magic (or maybe it’s just sufficiently advanced?) It’s worth remembering that a Through the darkened glass to where the newsreader is sitting. Newsreader sees the reflection of the hidden screen, and the camera doesn’t see the screen at all – it sees straight Of glass, tilted at 45°, inside a darkened “shroud” the camera lens is hidden behind the darkened glass, so the TV teleprompters have solved this problem – they use a piece You, I’m not looking at the camera – so to you, I appear to be looking slightly above your head, or off to Problem of the camera and the screen not being in the same place – so if we’re chatting on Skype, and I’m looking at ![]() Massively improved, and even a £300 netbook has a pretty good built-in webcam – but they still haven’t solved the Nowadays, of course, the video and audio quality are They always looked slightly off to one side or above your head. – low quality, unresponsive, and this weird problem where the person on the other end never actually looked AT you, My first experience of video conferencing was on a £10,000 dual ISDN Pentium system back in 1997, and it was horrible Just for Fun: The Webcam Teleprompter Shroud Experiment Posted by Dylan Beattie on
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