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  • 4tiitoo Launches NUIA Full Focus – a Smart Software for Natural Eye Contact in Video Calls

    4tiitoo Launches NUIA Full Focus – a Smart Software for Natural Eye Contact in Video Calls

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    MUNICH, October 30, 2020 (Newswire.com)
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    The Munich-based startup 4tiitoo (forty two), which specializes in gaze control of computers, launches NUIA Full Focus, a software that creates natural eye contact with conversation partners in video calls intelligently and without artificial image adjustments. This builds trust, makes content more memorable and simply helps the speaker to come across as more engaging.

    Over 900 million business trips are expected to be replaced by remote communication this year. In this new normal, the ability to build trust in video calls is a key success factor. This is especially important for sales. Studies show that eye contact is the key to trust. This applies to video-supported communication just as much as to face-to-face meetings. Eye contact in video calls is provided to the conversation partner when the user looks at the monitor area near the camera (the “sweet spot”). Currently, however, a lot of relevant information – often even the image of the other person in the call – is displayed far away from this sweet spot. As a result, many callers seem to look away from the camera and the person they are talking to – even when they are actually concentrating on the video image of the person they are talking to.

    With NUIA Full Focus and an Eye Tracker installed, a quick glance at relevant screen content is enough to automatically duplicate it into the sweet spot. The user can then look in the direction of the camera again and signals full attention to the conversation partner through eye contact.

    In addition to intuitive eye contact, NUIA Full Focus contains a number of other useful functions: Important commands within the video call software, such as Mute and Hang Up, can be controlled by gaze without this software being actively in the foreground. If you move from the ideal camera angle, Full Focus’s Posture Coach functionality gives a brief warning, helping you optimize your conversational position and showing your attention.

    NUIA Full Focus works seamlessly with all video communication solutions such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Webex or Skype. When used in sales, NUIA Full Focus also integrates with content from SalesForce, Hubspot and other CRM systems. Whether in sales calls, webinars, trainings, job application situations or in daily meetings with colleagues – with NUIA Full Focus you give your business partners the attention they deserve.

    4tiitoo co-founder and Managing Director Tore Meyer: “In our own video calls we noticed over and over again that the participants gazed in all possible directions, just not at our eyes. We wanted to do this better, especially in our sales and investor calls, so we started by positioning relevant windows on the screen with the mouse near the camera. That was an improvement, but at the same time distracted us in highly concentrated call situation. After a big investor pitch via video conference, we came up with the idea: Why not solve this more elegantly with our Eye-Control platform? NUIA Full Focus is the result.”

    Those who make eye contact will be noticed. This is something Tore Meyer has learned from personal experience: “During our financing round, we got to know all new investors via video call using this technique” – with success. A financing round for 3.1 million euros was signed in mid-October. In view of the continuing interest, a second closing is in preparation.

    For more information: https://4tiitoo.com/GoFullFocus

    NUIA Full Focus product video
    https://youtu.be/_Yoon5vcQ2k

    About 4tiitoo

    4tiitoo GmbH is a market leader in the area of enterprise SaaS companies for AI-based solutions for easy gaze control of computers. The software NUIA Productivity+, used by numerous large companies across various industries, improves efficiency and ergonomics when using standard office software. The new product NUIA Full Focus provides natural eye contact and trust in video conferences – fully automatic and with all video conferencing platforms – optimizing sales and all video communication.

    4tiitoo was founded in 2013 by Tore Meyer and Stephan Odoerfer.

    Press Contact

    Dr. Hans Jürgen Croissant
    Telephone: +49 89 2000 128 – 24
    Email: hansjuergen.croissant@4tiitoo.com

    Source: 4tiitoo GmbH

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  • Building Cultural Bridges Kicks Off!

    Building Cultural Bridges Kicks Off!

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    Innovative pen pal program connects students across the globe with cutting-edge video technology


    BUFFALO, N.Y., February 26, 2018 (Newswire.com)
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    Educators of America has successfully kicked off their Building Cultural Bridges Program connecting American and Namibian students via video conferencing. “I do not know what will happen, but I’m willing to make new friends,” says a Grade 7 Namibian student prior to virtually meeting their American counterpart. That American counterpart is also a middle school student located 10 time zones away in Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite being continents and hemispheres apart, two groups of middle school students were about to experience an international meeting that put them practically in the same room. 

    Originating as a simple pen pal program designed by Peace Corps Volunteer Brett Claydon, Educators of America partnered with Brett to take the pen pal program idea into the 21st century. Namibian students were the first to write and deliver their pen pal letters via post to their American counterparts. After much anticipation, the American students received their letters, discovered who their counterpart was and mailed their handwritten responses immediately. As the letters were en route, Brett answered questions from students about life in America along with engaging with local teachers and administrators of the Namibian school to ensure the sustainability of the program. 

    The world is going to open up for them and that is very important because to make friends everywhere would be wonderful.

    Ellen Nel, English Teacher

    Executive Director of Educators of America Michael Lynch traveled to Namibia, landing in the capital, Windhoek, to meet Brett and begin their journey to his site, video technology in tow. Educators of America obtained Cisco video technology equipment from ConvergeOne and shipped it to Namibia in order for the Namibian students to virtually meet and greet their American pen pals. Arriving in town, the two were able to successfully install the video technology into the school on the first day with some help from the school’s IT department. The following evening, the Namibian students dressed in their school uniforms and filled with excitement and eagerness, filled the Computer Centre, ready to see and hear their American student pen pals – who were just arriving to school at 7 in the morning in Nevada.

    A flurry of waves, hellos, gasps and laughter filled the Namibian classroom as American students began to read out the names of their pen pals and match a face to a name. As the session progressed, there was an exchange of greetings between both Namibian and American teachers involved as they began to put together a schedule that would allow for one-on-one discussions between the pen pals to encourage cross-cultural exchange, relationship building and intercultural learning. “Next step is that we build a good friendship, and maybe one day in the future we’ll even bump into each other,” said a Namibian student post-video meeting. Peace Corps Volunteer Brett Claydon said, “Many Namibian students are ambitious to travel the world and discover what is beyond their borders and this is certainly the first step in doing that.”

    The Building Cultural Bridges program falls in line with goals two and three of Peace Corps, which is to help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served and to promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. Additionally, the program is designed to improve reading, writing, presentation and relationship-building skills. 

    “The world is going to open up for them and that is very important because to make friends everywhere would be wonderful.” A statement coming from an emotional and visibly excited Ellen Nel, an English teacher at the Namibian school who is now championing the program among other teachers. 

    Students and teachers in the United States can learn more about the Building Cultural Bridges Program by visiting www.educatorsusa.org/bcb-program and downloading the online application in PDF or Word Document form. Educators of America plans to expand the program during the spring and fall of 2018 to include up to 10 more schools in the USA, connecting another 225 students with their new friends in Namibia.

    Media Contact:
    Michael Lynch
    Educators of America Inc.
    Phone: (716) 710-7300
    Email: info@educatorsusa.org

    Source: Educators of America Inc.

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