The apparatus and method for maintaining eye contact during person to person video telecommunication includes disposing a video camera directly behind an OLED video display screen and synchronizing the video camera with the illumination levels of the display screen. This configuration allows the camera to observe the user from a natural face-on perspective, and effectively reconnects the eye-lines of the users, and restores all natural face-to-face emotional cues ordinarily disrupted by eye-line dissociation. Some embodiments include the use of this technique for stand-alone monitors, handheld devices, laptop computers, and the potential use in conjunction with autostereoscopic display technology, including wide look around or head and eye-tracking, for 3 dimensional eye-to-eye telecommunication.