Ideally PC cameras would be somewhere right in the screen itself, and you could position notes or whatever over it. This is a tough one, and outside the control of the application vendors. The fewer the people on a session, the worse the effect. In-screen camera - people on video conference calls are looking all over the place, adding to the artificiality and slight weirdness of the encounters.It forces an unnatural way of exchanging, albeit with the virtue of preventing rude interruptions. Like a cell phone on “speaker” setting, these tools only let one person speak at once. Duplex speech would greatly enhance the conversational quality of these tools.Then they hunt for the unmute button, muttering to themselves, “I should know this by now.” But just as Apple perfected (more or less) the use of screen swipe, why not certain hand gestures before the camera to signal microphone on or off, or video? Or simply the choice to use the space bar?
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