On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 08:35:41AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin  quoting Dexter Filmore as of Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:42:19AM +0100:
> > Am Montag, 13. M?rz 2006 22:00 schrieb Rick Carlson:
> > 
> > > I suspect that that is because video takes up a lot of bandwidth. Much
> > > the same reason why we do not have video telephones even with cable
> > > companies getting into telephony and telephone companies getting into
> > 
> > Reason for this still is the technical impossibility to make a vid phone 
> > that 
>                                                                 ^compact
> > allows you to look the other person in the eye. Feels awkward. I wouldn't 
> > wanna talk to a business partner while having the feeling he's looking at 
> > something completely different.
> 

Funny ... that's the default gaze I get in live meetings.

> I should think that a half-silvered mirror would do the trick.
> 
> 
>                          mirror          user
>    camera                   /
>    --------|               /              OO
>    --------|              /                >
>                          /               \__/
>                         /
>                         =====
>                        display
> 

Another helpful suggestion from ol' "Smoke and Mirrors" Stremler.

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