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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  290 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For when the nerd helmet isn’t nerdy enough

    keep your eyes on the camera, not everyone else. See if maybe people respond to you better. Yeah, you can't see their expressions, it's a problem. But the way we interact is so fucking dependent on eyelines that Apple has piled billions into moving their fucking cameras down an inch.

It's the idea behind the Errol Morris Interrotron. Obviously not a practical solution for Zoom, but it gets to the idea that we can't really feel what someone is saying if we can't look them in the eye. When looking someone in the eye becomes impossible, then communication breaks entirely, as evidenced by every single internet flame war in history.