A recent Apple patent of invention for an iSight tv camera place behind the screen instead of above it sound like a coolheaded idea — too bad a system just like it has already been invented .
By the theater director of some of Apple’smost memorable commercials , no less ! Errol Morris ’s awesomely - namedInterrotronsystem captures the first - person audience for his documentaries and commercials by using two cameras with mirrored , teleprompter - like blind in front of them , each with the epitome of the other person ’s face .
Apple ’s patent bring the exact same way , and can wipe out the lack of intimacy fetch about by look just above or below the center of the person you ’re cybering with . Of course there ’s no real hope of this being integrate into a real product anytime soon , as the tech for place a working photographic camera behind a traditional laptop LCD is still a ways away .
But OK , while we ’re talking Errol Morris and Interrotrons , what the hell :
[ Ars Technica , Apple Insider ]
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