recursive 🏳️🌈Really hate this idea of video chat software faking eye contact. Not because of presenting something that doesn't reflect reality, but because its reifying a neurotypical model of what is right and good in how humans present themselves
Elfbiter@recursive Making eye contact is not universally followed practice. It may signal honesty in some parts of the West but elsewhere it is, for example, signal of challenge and aggression. Staring Japanese into eyes may be seen as challenge (unless said Japanese understands there is a difference). Not all Western habits are "universal".