7: An Easier Way to Make Direct Eye Contact on Zoom – the Elgato Prompter

Career Narratives with Doug Lester

Making direct eye contact or what feels like direct eye contact on Zoom is hard. Beyond looking back and forth between a person's image and your camera lens, which is less than ideal, you need a teleprompter to make it work. With a teleprompter, you can look directly at your camera lens and the eyes of the person on the other side of the camera. But teleprompter setups are expensive and are relatively complicated to set up. Elgato's new Prompter is an affordable option. Host Doug Lester tests it out and compares it to the higher-priced teleprompter setup he's been using for his coaching sessions for years.
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