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Spoilers ST Strange New Worlds - Starships and Technology Season Three Discussion

blssdwlf said:
We could imagine that the other half of the video feed is on the upper monitors for crew on the surrounding stations. I wonder if there were any instances of two way conversations with crew from the helm/navigator station...
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"Amok Time," maybe, when Chekov told Kirk they'd already set out for Vulcan when he was asking if they could squeeze in both trips?

Yep, sure did.
 
DEWLine said:
Interesting that every workstation on the bridge has a dedicated A/V pickup built-in. Not shown as such as we saw in "The Cage", but the equipment is still built into the consoles. So I'm guessing that they can do video chats as needed, too.
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Upgrade from the gooseneck viewers.
 
blssdwlf said:
We could imagine that the other half of the video feed is on the upper monitors for crew on the surrounding stations. I wonder if there were any instances of two way conversations with crew from the helm/navigator station...
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This just reminded me; for the eyelines to match, the screen needs to be around the camera, so Uhura talking to someone displayed on the overhead screen doesn't add up. But I did notice the scene in this episode where one of the cameras was behind the big Ready/Briefing Room screen (I guess seeing the ghost-image of what was actually on the screen would be optional).
 
Maybe some leftover holographic technology? Remember when we could see the side of people's faces on the main viewscreen in TNG even though Picard should only be seeing the front on a flat screen? Maybe Starfleet has had that for ages and the projected image centers the face when possible for conversations. Uhura is usually talking slightly away from the console into her earpiece.
 
Can we talk about Uhura's Quarters? She's an Ensign now and has the same quarters as the rest of the command team with the Triple windows.
Worf in Tng had an internal smaller quarters ..


Is it by billet as she is seamingly the Head Comunications officer now?
 
Ithekro said:
Maybe some leftover holographic technology? Remember when we could see the side of people's faces on the main viewscreen in TNG even though Picard should only be seeing the front on a flat screen? Maybe Starfleet has had that for ages and the projected image centers the face when possible for conversations. Uhura is usually talking slightly away from the console into her earpiece.
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It's possible. I've imagined the possibility of combining multiple cameras, or a camera and a LIDAR scan, to make a 3D version of someone on a video call and reposition the virtual camera to line up with the other persons' eyes on the screen. The Apple Vision Pro does something similar in principle for video calls, though the execution is a bit more complex because it has to work around the giant visor covering half the face, and Apple also has a feature for newer iPhones (and Macs) which just retouches the eyes in a video call so they seem to be pointed at the camera rather than below it.
 
David cgc said:
This just reminded me; for the eyelines to match, the screen needs to be around the camera, so Uhura talking to someone displayed on the overhead screen doesn't add up. But I did notice the scene in this episode where one of the cameras was behind the big Ready/Briefing Room screen (I guess seeing the ghost-image of what was actually on the screen would be optional).
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Yeah, it would be a reasonable option that one or more of the blinky monitors at Uhura's eye level is also a monitor and Uhura can see the person on the other side.

Curiously, there is a conversation around 18 minutes in the episode where Kirk is on a call with Starfleet in sickbay and Kirk is standing while the monitor is at his stomach level. The commodore? is talking as if Kirk is on his eye level and Kirk is either looking ahead or down at the monitor. I'm assuming the monitor's camera zoomed out to show all of Kirk? Or maybe just aimed up for his face?

For Chekov he's staring off to the right of the main viewer, possibly at one of the half-stations. I'm not sure what he could be looking at unless there was some popup monitor on his side of the console :)
 
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