Nvidia has presented an update for its software Broadcast. The software can now imitate your eyes incredibly realistically. This has various advantages and disadvantages.
Anyone who is in a video conference knows how difficult it is to maintain eye contact with their conversation partner. Because as soon as you read texts or look at the display where the other faces are visible, you are no longer looking directly at the camera. And immediately, the eye contact is lost.
Nvidia has now introduced a new feature for its “Broadcast” software. Nvidia calls this feature “Maxine Eye Contact.” Thanks to this feature, your counterpart in calls or video conferences always feels that you are looking directly into their eyes – even when you are looking at completely different things. How well this works is already demonstrated by initial tests.
Permanent eye contact, even when you’re looking elsewhere.
Who is this for? Nvidia has been offering a Broadcast app for some time. This is software that provides AI-optimized voice and video transmission. The new eye contact feature is especially intended for “content creators who want to record themselves while reading their notes or a script.”
Here, the user’s gaze is directed to the camera using AI. This happens all in real-time, without you or the viewer noticing anything.
This could mean in the future that you are being looked at the whole time in a video from your favorite streamer – even when they are reading their text or looking at their monitor. In this way, the video feels much more direct. Because eye contact radiates trust and credibility.
What do I need for this? Anyone who wants to use Nvidia Broadcast or the new “Maxine Eye Contact” feature must have an Nvidia graphics card with Tensor Cores. These are the AI computing units. Nvidia’s minimum requirement 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 cannot benefit from this.
You can see how this works in the official Nvidia video:
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