Nvidia has released an update for its Broadcast software. The software can now imitate your eyes deceptively real. This has various advantages and disadvantages.
Anyone who sits in a video conference knows how difficult it is to maintain eye contact with the person you are talking to. Because as soon as you read texts or look at the display where the faces of the others can be seen, you no longer look directly at the camera. And immediately the eye contact is lost.
Nvidia has now introduced a new function for its “Broadcast” software. Nvidia calls the feature “Maxine Eye Contact.” Thanks to this feature, your counterpart in calls or video conferences always has the feeling that you are looking your conversation partner directly in the eye – even if you are looking at completely different things. Initial tests have already shown how well this works.
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Maintain eye contact, even when you’re looking somewhere else.
Who is this for? Nvidia has been offering a broadcast app for some time. This is software that offers AI-optimized voice and video transmission. The new eye contact feature is primarily intended for “content creators who want to record themselves while reading their notes or a script.”
The user’s gaze is directed to the camera with the help of AI. It all happens in real time, without you or the viewer noticing anything.
In the future, this could mean that your favorite streamer is watching you the whole time in a video – even if they are reading their text or looking at their monitor. In this way, the video appears much more direct. Because eye contact radiates trust and credibility.
What do I need for this? If you want to use Nvidia Broadcast or the new “Maxine Eye Contact” feature, you absolutely need an Nvidia graphics card with tensor cores. These are the AI processing units. The minimum requirement from Nvivida is therefore at least a GeForce RTX 2060, Quadro RTX 3000, TITAN RTX or a similar graphics card. AMD graphics cards or older Nvidia GPUs can therefore not benefit from it.
You can see exactly how this works in Nvidia’s official video:
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