The insight is that if you read text from a tiny enough box right below the front camera on the MacBook, it appears as if you're talking to the camera.
Boom! Easy Eye Contact With Camera.
I scrunched up the Notion app and placed it as well as I could in the safe area to test it out for a couple of videos, but then I just wrote a web app because it seemed like the next logical step.
Once you paste the script and hit play... you can only see the text in the safe area so your eyes don't wander.