Graphics processing company NVIDIA has announced a new product, Maxine, which is supposed to help with video calls. In addition to some general compression that should reduce bandwidth for everyone, this technology will also CGI your face so it looks like you're staring at the person on the screen like a normal human conversation, instead of each of you awkwardly looking at your webcam:
— Read the restFace alignment enables faces to be automatically adjusted so that people appear to be facing each other during a call, while gaze correction helps simulate eye contact, even if the camera isn't aligned with the user's screen.
