

You can test this for yourself with the handshake test we mentioned above. Again, they're presenting a view that you don't usually see, i.e., someone looking at you, so those images you see on a selfie camera are mirrored, instead of what the camera is actually seeing. Mirroring is really common on selfie cameras.

If you're finding it all too confusing - perhaps if you spend a lot of time presenting text like an online tutor - then you can turn off mirroring in the video settings. Zoom is (currently) the only platform that will let you turn off mirroring.
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Pocket-lint How to turn off mirroring on Zoom Zoom, Skype, Teams, Google Meet all show you this mirrored view, but everything for the viewers is exactly as it should be, so don't change anything, don't write things backwards, don't print things backwards - instead, just stop thinking about it, because you'll tie yourself in knots. Just don't write anything backwards, because it will then be backwards. The good news is that if you're showing text through the camera - perhaps showing something you've written - mirroring means that it looks backwards to you, while it looks normal to everyone else on the video conference. Don't panic: All text is the right way round You'll have probably seen this in gym classes, where the instructor says "move to your left" and then steps to their left, which is your right. Think about a teacher standing in front of a class if they say "look to your left" all the student look left, but that's actually to the teacher's right, because they are standing opposite. It's not only limited to video conferencing, however, it's just that video conferencing shows you what you're doing while other situations don't. It's something you never see, which is why mirroring is used. When you see their view - the unmirrored view - that's like an out of body experience. The important thing to realise is that the people on the other end of the line aren't sitting in your seat, they are effectively sitting opposite you. It's a phenomena that only really arises with video where you can see yourself, which is only something we've been dealing with for a couple of decades. You immediately think you're doing it backwards, because it's not what you expect to see and you try to correct it. Without mirroring in your preview window, when you reach left, you'll see yourself reaching right and that's confusing. When it comes to presenting it's a lot easier for you to understand what's going on, giving much more natural results thanks to mirroring. You see it every morning when you look in the mirror.


