be too close to the video display to allow eye contact at the far site when the participant returns to a normal position after completing operations on the touch screen the participant will have returned to a position providing eye contact the images can be presented in various formats for example each video display 616 a d could show a panoramic strip and a single large window for the current speaker alternatively each video display 616 a d could show a composite of the four images directly in front of the far site video displays if a similar videoconferencing unit is present at the far site other arrangements and formats can be done if desired and are familiar to those skilled in the art fig7 illustrates the connection of two videoconferencing units 700 and 702 through the internet 704 it is understood that the internet is an exemplary network and other private and public networks or a combination thereof can be used to connect the videoconferencing units 700 and 702 typical industry standard formats such as h 263 h 264 and h 265 can be used for the video codecs with signaling done using h 323 or sip normal audio codecs such as g 729 g 711 and the like can be used as the audio codecs one skilled in the art will be familiar with the various audio and video codecs and signaling industry standards used for videoconferencing as well as various proprietary formats with this it is shown that both table top and floor standing videoconference units can be developed that provide eye contact.