11. Turn off the view of yourself. In almost no other situation I know of are you staring at a mirror of yourself while you're talking to someone else.
First thing I do in Zoom, immediately followed by repositioning the window right below my DSLR camera up above so it looks like I am looking people in the eyes
Impossible in Google Meet or Teams, which really sucks.
I’m not sure I follow, but I’m really interested in fixing eye contact. Can you elaborate?
If the window you’re looking at is just below your camera, when you look at the window it almost appears that you’re looking into the camera.
Exactly right. I look up into lens thatbis just on the top of monitor. the angle between camera lens and people's faces us just a few degrees. I often shift my gaze straight into the lens too, just because I can...
It seems that this should be a feature of the software too. You should be able to tell the software where your camera is, and you should be able to tell it to move the picture of the talking person (or a person that you select, manually) closest to the camera, always.
You can hide your self view in Meet since some months now. I even made a user script to do so automatically.
Recently started doing this and it feels like it's freed up around 25% of my brain cycles to concentrate and think about what's actually happening in the meeting.