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Did anyone else find themselves focusing on the eyes?

Pupil diameter in most humans is affected by autonomic arousal, e.g. in conversation it provides an often unconscious signal to the listener/observer. I didn't detect any dilation or constriction of the pupils in either head image; and for me it introduced some uncanny valley-ness.

The contrast between Mark's lighter iris color and both the blackness and relative smallness of his pupils drew my attention repeatedly. The middle image of the sampled video shows some contrast between iris and pupil but that might have been too noisy for their use. Anyway, I'd be curious, what they tried here. It seems they're rendering the pupil, I wonder if they'd tried playing with the diameter as a fixed proportion of the iris diameter, or whether they tested edge blurring for lighter-colored eyed individuals to reduce contrast.

I'd be curious to learn, but suspect that sending the "wrong" eye dilation information may be worse (e.g. sending a "beady" eyed signal triggering unconscious emotional responses) than just sending a static pupil size too.

Still a very impressive demo.