Facetime camera reverses left and right

I just bought a Logitech webcam to use with Facetime on my Mac Pro. Noticed right away that the image it shows me of myself is reversed left to right. For example, if I raise my right hand, the image of me raises its left hand. So I fired up my Macbook Pro to check if the iSight was doing the same thing. Answer is yes. My question is, is this the way somebody on the other end of a Facetime will see me? What id I want to hold up some printed text to the cam? It will be reversed. What is the point of this? Seems stupid.

Gary P wrote:
What is the point of this? Seems stupid.
The point is that it's showing you what you "expect" and by that I mean it shows you how you are used to seeing yourself: In a mirror. The fact is that if you don't reverse the self-monitor image, people freak out because not only are they seeing themselves in an unfamiliar way (reversed from what they see in the mirror), but the movements "appear" backwards: When the self-monitor image is not reversed, when you move left, the image of you on screen moves right! Mirror-imaging the self-monitor display solves all these weird psychological issues.
But...what I don't know is what is actually seen on the other end. Maybe the image on the other end is proper and unreversed. I would hope so, because friends normally encounter you as the camera would, unreversed. You'll have to test it with a friend and find out.

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