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dylan604 3 days ago

Newscast teleprompters are directly in front of the camera lens specifically to not have them looking away from the lens. This has been a solved technology for decades. Perhaps you're thinking of cue cards or the teleprompters speakers use in a speech live audience type of setting?

tomcam 3 days ago | parent [-]

Well you got me. I haven't watched broadcast TV for decades. I do see that phenomenon a lot with vloggers at present.

Am I also incorrect that they appear not to be looking directly at the camera? Looking back after your comment I still think it feels like they aren't.

dylan604 3 days ago | parent [-]

The AI characters? Nothing about them feels right. The audio looks out of sync with the fake lip flaps. The dude's arm gestures are horrendous. It's AI/cgi, yet the fake background looks like a bad chromakey. You already pointed out some of the audio/voice issues.

pavel_lishin 3 days ago | parent [-]

> It's AI/cgi, yet the fake background looks like a bad chromakey.

I genuinely wonder if that's intentional. Maybe that looks more "realistic", and gives the audience something to stumble over that's not other AI artefacts?

dylan604 3 days ago | parent [-]

The result to me looked more like a Zoom background replacement rather than a weather chromakey. That's what really looked bad to me. Even the full studio chromakey looks much better where the anchors are at a desk in front of a color vs a full studio.