Seeing Virtually Eye to Eye

Holographic telepresence and eye contact.

Avi Bar-Zeev
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readJul 10, 2021

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A screenshot of me moving a virtual camera around
A screenshot of me moving a virtual camera around

Eye contact is one of those things we often take for granted in face-to-face conversations, unless it goes wrong. We sorely miss it in telepresence, like video chat: Zoom, Skype, Teams and more.

It’s been twelve years since I built one unusually impactful prototype around this issue. It used a pre-release Kinect, about 12…

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XR Pioneer (30+ years), started/helped projects at Microsoft (HoloLens), Apple, Amazon, Keyhole (Google Earth), Linden Lab (Second Life), Disney (VR), XR Guild