The feature was spotted by Mike Rundle on Twitter and as of now, it only seems to be working on the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. Users have the option of enabling or disabling it from within the FaceTime app. Usually, the person we are talking to via a video call looks like he is looking at one side or the other because no one really looks at the selfie camera the entire time. The entire purpose of a video call is to see the person you are talking to and one can only do that when they look at the screen and not the front-facing camera on their handset. But Apple seems to have found the solution for this with its ‘FaceTime Attention Correction’ feature. The company seems to have deployed some kind of an image manipulation tool to make it look like the user is looking at the selfie camera of the device. As a result, people having a FaceTime call will always feel like they have an eye contact with one another, even if in reality, they don’t. It is worth pointing that it was Rundle, who had said in 2017 that Apple would be launching this feature in a future iOS version.
Dave Schunik has explained on Twitter that the effect has been added using ARKit by mapping user’s face and then adjusting the position of their eyes.
Notice the warping of the line across both the eyes and nose. pic.twitter.com/U7PMa4oNGN — Dave Schukin 🤘 (@schukin) July 3, 2019 However, what is not clear as of now is that which handsets by Apple will eventually get this feature. It is also unknown if the feature will work with Group Calls on FaceTime. We expect to find out more about the new feature when it arrives in the public facing beta next week. For the latest gadget and tech news, and gadget reviews, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. For newest tech & gadget videos subscribe to our YouTube Channel. You can also stay up to date using the Gadget Bridge Android App.
