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| NVIDIA uses artificial intelligence to keep our eyes on the camera |
NVIDIA has announced a new feature in its broadcast software that shows the user that they appear to be looking at the camera the whole time, when they are looking at something else.
The Eye Contact feature added in Nvidia Broadcast 1.4 uses artificial intelligence to place two virtual eyes on the user's eyes that focus only on the camera, according to the US company in a blog post.
NVIDIA explained that this new feature is for content creators who want to appear focused on the camera while reading notes or text in front of them while broadcasting.
And according to NVIDIA, the Eye Contact feature attempts to match the color of virtual eyes to the color of real eyes. She said that the virtual eyes disappear when the face turns away from the camera.
NVIDIA confirmed that the feature is still in the beta stage and asked users to share their experiences to improve it.
The company says, “There are millions of combinations of eye colors and reflections. If you test it and find issues or just want to help us develop better AI effects, please send us a short video here, we would really appreciate it!”
It should be noted that NVIDIA has aggressively pursued this type of artificial intelligence in recent years, and one of the most important features of its graphics cards is the (DLSS) function that uses artificial intelligence to improve images by adding information to the image. . Not present if low resolution is specified.
The latest version (DLSS 3) can create and insert entirely new images from in-game footage, similar to the broadcast (eye contact) feature that adds virtual eyes to faces.
The broadcast software also has other AI features, for example b. Background replacement that acts as a virtual green screen and the ability to mute background noise picked up by the microphone.
It should be noted that NVIDIA's new feature is not the first in this space, as Apple started testing a similar feature called Attention Correction for its FaceTime messaging service in 2018. In current versions of iOS, the feature is located under the name (Eye Contact) in the FaceTime settings. . Microsoft is working on a similar feature in Windows 11 for devices that have a Neural Processing Unit (NPU).