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.
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