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One problem with videoconferencing is that the video does not stream continuously. Every few seconds the image freezes momentarily. Inevitably the frozen-on frame shows you with your eyes Ÿ closed, or in the middle of saying a “sh” sound, or some other stupid expression.
Occasionally the picture
freezes for about 30 seconds, usually with your hand gesturing in front of your face in such a way as to make it appear that you’re sucking your thumb. Your only indication of this are the stifled guffaws from the other end of the line.
I propose that videoconferencing software store an “emergency still.” Just before your conference, you take some still pictures of yourself with your web cam, and select the best one. The other person does the same, and these pictures are exchanged between the two computers.
Whenever the other person’s computer detects an interruption in the live video, it switches to the emergency still, showing you looking sophisticated as you babble on.
Fe Lady exhibition
http://www.msnbc.com/news/901178.asp
is this the one DC? [po, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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Apparently there's a Margaret Thatcher themed art exhibit on in London right now that features a video of her giving a speech with her eyes closed. (The artist in question simply stitched together all the frames where she blinked.) |
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Yeah, we can really use that. I
remember at a computer
convention 10 years ago, they
were demonstrating the video
capture ability for computers and
projecting the pictures on a giant
screen. It would capture a frame a
second and hold it for 4 seconds.
I was in the front of the crowd and
very quickly a sneeze came on me.
Not pretty at all. First it showed
me with a wrinkled smirking face,
then me trying to deflect spray
hanging in mid air and finally
hunched over with my hand in my
face. |
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Link to that Fe Lady video? |
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It would be fun to make it emergency photo of you half-naked, oiled up and flexing. |
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What I want is a "Stupidexpressionator", call me simple but I gain much pleasure from seeing pictures of people pulling accidental stupid expressions. |
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This is good and useful. Croissant. |
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The vet called it the Flehman Reaction {{{GRIMACE}}} |
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I like it, i think it could be very useful. |
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[robobust] Yeah, they are funny. But I wouldn't like it if it were me up there so... |
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<Tarzan>This good idea, bad pictures bad idea<Tarzan> |
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A nice idea, but what do you have for those of us who inevitably blink during the still-photo-taking? At least 5 photos from my recent WeddingMoon feature a stupidly-expressioned me. |
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Great idea, however I am hopeful the technology will get much better soon. (no down time) |
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[Curry] - Where can I get hold of the thatcher video? |
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Funny how that works....I've shot tens of thousands of photos, and I learned not to show people the unflattering ones - you know, one eye closed, mouth open..... |
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But if I worked for the National Enquirer or some other rag I could get paid for shots like this of celebrities. |
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