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Eye-tracking software could make video calls feel more lifelike

By Chris Stokel-Walker

31 May 2021

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Teaching over video calls can be challenging

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A system that tracks your eye movements could help make video calls truer to life.

at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), was frustrated by the inability to smoothly teach an online music class during the coronavirus pandemic. “With the online setting, we miss a lot of these little non-verbal body gestures and communications,” he says.

With , a colleague at UCSD, he developed a machine learning system that monitors a presenter’s eye movements to track who they are looking at on screen, then lets…

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