You do realize that’s how video calls and web calls work right? In fact on the Mac OS side and iOS side of things it automatically resent your eyes to the camera even though you’re not looking at them. Now if you need to sit that close to the screen in order to read things I understand that and there is much you can do but how often do you actually need to read things off the screen when you’re video calling?

Depending on your light perception and sensitivity. You could tape a laser pointer or something to the side of the camera. If sensitive to light you could also add a layer of tape in front of the light to weaken it. That way you will be able to maybe somewhat see where to look. Hope that may help. Best of luck.