Teleprompter beam splitter
Angled glass over a screen so the camera sits where the other face is
A sheet of half-silvered glass mounted at an angle above a monitor, with the camera behind it. You look at the person on the screen and into the lens at the same moment, so they get eye contact rather than a view of your forehead. Teleprompters have worked this way for decades. The parts are now cheap enough that people buy them for meetings.
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- Seth GodinDoes it
Author · Seth's Blog, published daily
He calls this the biggest leap in his call rig since he started hiding his own self-view. The reasoning: look at the camera and you are not looking at the person, and a day with no eye contact leaves you tired. He puts a typical beam splitter, hood, mount and a monitor at under $300.
Source: seths.blog: Fixing Zoom calls
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