I have been struggling with sending video messages these days: If you need to present something you have on the screen, it’s almost impossible to look into the camera.
On live calls, it’s okay to a certain degree but when it’s recorded and you watch yourself looking at a weird point after you shoot it, it’s more upsetting and you think like: “Oh my gosh, couldn’t there be a better way of doing this?”
The placement of the front-facing cameras of the devices as we have them doesn’t make things easier, so I found myself imagining solutions where the camera -which is tiny eye really- to be placed in the middle of the screen instead of on the top, where we are never gonna look at.
But wouldn’t it be even better if with the use of some mirrors, reflections, change of focus and angles… Cameras would be able to look us in the eye rather than us trying to force ourselves to look at those tiny small black holes?
I believe that day will soon be here, considering the number of video calls we’ve been doing in 2020. Till then we need to find a way to turn our looks to that dull point where everyone is looking through.
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