[mosselman]

> Gesture Guard

> Detects and blurs different types of gestures that don't have their place in a video call.

> Currently, it has two main components: detecting and blurring face touches (scratching face, picking nose, yawning, etc.) and detecting nudity. These help you to not get caught off guard.

Finally I can do my stand up in the shower.

This sort of feels like an April fools page.

[dang]

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[mosselman]

It was just a joke. The April fools part was in relation to the novel ideas that are presented that this app allows for. If anything it is a compliment.

[soonpls]

The 'nudity' scenario is somewhere along the lines of you being in a video call, and your loved one walking naked in the background, or just forgetting to close the webcam while you change, etc.

We realize it's not a common scenario, but even if it would work once or twice per year, it would still be saving you from a very awkward situation, thus the value we see in this.

[bcraven]

Politician offers to resign after showering during live video meeting

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/councillor-s...

[kohtatsu]

Pretty wholesome.

Unfortunately he believed minimizing the app would cut the video.

[newsbinator]

There's no substitute for a hardwired camera-on indicator light.

Otherwise politicians are going to keep showering on camera during meetings, instead of showering off-camera during meetings, like they're supposed to.

[tachyonbeam]

I know that the webcam USB API requires the on-off light to be controlled in software, but can't webcams just... Ignore that, and just control it in hardware? It seems to me that would be better for everyone. Heck, we could mandate webcams have hardware indicator lights by law. You can always tape over them if they bother you.

[microcolonel]

It's kinda a mix of things. Webcams built with IR sensors and emitters (like the Logitech BRIO 4K) don't use the indicator while using the IR, though you can clearly see the pulsating near-infrared LED while it's on.

On Linux at least, if you open the v4l2 device for a device like this, it will turn on the indicator directly, and I don't think you can attach to it with libusb while it's otherwise in use by v4l2. In practice, I think the worst you could do from userspace on Linux is show the indicator while not recording.

[microcolonel]

I honestly don't see why he would offer to resign, seems totally innocent?

[RobinL]

Another scenario: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52835351

[jtbayly]

Blurring it out so that people can tell what you’re doing, but not see the details? I don’t think that’s much better, honestly.