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Imagine an HD webcam that can track you as you move around your office, room, or even outdoors. The OBSBOT TINY Smart AI Webcam can also zoom in on you with a simple hand gesture and even track someone else if you want to "hand off" attention to someone new in the frame. Tech expert Dave Taylor offers up an extensive demo of its features with live footage, as recorded in his actual kitchen! Check it out!
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An automated pan tilt zoom webcam. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is really cool. It's the Osbot tiny webcam. It is
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an AI powered PTZ webcam and PTZ is pan tilt and zoom and basically you can see the camera can move
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by itself and I'm going to give you a nice demo in just a minute but it can actually move with
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you so it can track you and you can zoom in and out with a simple hand gesture. I'll show you that
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too. So it does AI tracking with auto frame auto exposure and smart white balance. The camera
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itself is a 1080p HD camera at 30 frames a second with a 2x digital zoom so when I do this gesture
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for it to zoom it can zoom in 2x and then it can zoom back out and it has a 90 degree field of view
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which I think is actually pretty optimal for webcams. Some companies are sending webcams or
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shipping webcams that have 110 or 120 degree field of view and that's a lot. That gives you so much of
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your environment that it's really not very helpful for most of like web conferences and stuff so 90
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degrees to me is pretty close to optimal. Now it also features a dual omnidirectional microphone
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with noise cancellation and as I've been showing some gesture control but you know what enough of
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this showing give me a second let me move things around and I'll show you by demonstrating how this
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works. So let me just come right back. Now I have the camera on a tripod you can see it here and
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if I spin my computer around you can see what it's seeing and as I go I'm going to cut between
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what my QuickTime player is recording from here and my camera so you can see the sort of bigger
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picture. Now one of the things that it's not yet doing is it's not tracking me right so the way
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to get it to track me oh actually it is tracking me good so now let me show you that zoom feature
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and to do that I just hold my hand up and I do a little l shape and then if I keep doing it
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it'll zoom back out right so it is tracking me if it wasn't I can just hold my hand up informally
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like this like me I'm the important person here and then it will track me but it should do that
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anyway so as I move around notice that it's actually following my action which is pretty
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darn slick right so I can still zoom in and zoom out and I'm getting feedback because on the front
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there's a green bar that turns blue when it recognizes one of those two basic hand gestures
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now when I cut to the actual webcam footage that I'm recording on my computer you're also hearing
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the webcam microphone that's why the audio time changes a lot now one of the other things to
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notice is that it will move up and down based on me moving up and down so it'll frame me so all of
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this is happening automatically really cool now let me disassemble things and show you a little
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more and walk you through a little bit of the technology here so hang on just a second and
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I'm going to switch things back I hope you found that interesting I actually think this is really
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cool now from here you can see that green and it is actually trying to find me so it can track me
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but that green light like I said turns blue if I was on camera and I did one of the two
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known hand gesture controls but let me give you a couple of close-ups too because there's a couple
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of other interesting things one of which is if you want to turn it off just point the lens straight
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down and it actually disables everything and then when you're ready you just pill to you know sort of
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flip it back up and you're good to go and then if I unplug it on the side there's usbc for power
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now I'm using my own usbc to usbc cable so that doesn't really count in terms of part of what's
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in the box I'll just put this on my computer because it ships with this this is the cable
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included and it's usbc on one end and usb3 that rectangle on the other end unfortunately my
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macbook pro doesn't have usb3 so this cable is not useful now one of the other things it has is it
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does come with this sort of stand that you should be able to theoretically hook up to the back of
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your computer screen and by itself it works perfectly well so I can do something like this
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and get it just so and so now I have it in a good position right well except it's a really heavy
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camera so as soon as I put it on it is connected by a battery which is nice but it tends to sag
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so the way that they've solved that problem is that there's a sticky part here but the problem
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is is if you stick it on then obviously when you close your computer it's still stuck on so
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not sure that's a great solution this might not be really optimal but the company does sell a
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little mini tripod for 10 bucks that you can actually use and have this on your desktop and
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separate from your computer and I really like that setup and the fact that it can track obviously
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gives you huge flexibility now let me give you just a couple more specs and then we'll talk the
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price that's really all we got left right so in terms of size this is 3.5 inches by 2.2 inches
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by 2.2 inches and it's 5.1 ounces which is really heavy for a webcam but really light when you
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consider how much technology is inside of this for to be able to pan and tilt and zoom and do
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all of those cool features and all the AI tracking and everything in this tiny little device so if
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you can figure out where and how to mount it I really don't think this works very well connected
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to the back of your laptop screen but for example if you have a desktop monitor then this solution
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might work great because you're not going to be taking it and bringing it to work and taking it
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home and putting it on the airplane so you can use it while you're on a road trip so something like
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this then works a whole lot better but it does have the quarter inch thread on the bottom which
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is exactly how I used it with my tripod and that gives you huge flexibility use a longer cord if
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you have to bring your own that's okay although actually their cord is pretty darn long too so
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that's everything about this I am a fan I love this sort of technology because I think it's
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really interesting for it to be tracking and following and having smarts in it and the idea
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that I can just do something like this and have it zoom I wish this camera did that right it doesn't
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now having said all of that the only thing left to talk about is the price and it's obviously going to
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be a little spendy for a webcam but obviously it's not just a webcam there's a lot more to it
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so before I get to the price can I invite you to go ahead and click and subscribe to my channel
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really appreciate when you do that and feel free to give me feedback thumbs up leave a comment tell
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me what you wish I would have demoed or zoomed in on or whatever and with that this is the Osbot
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tiny webcam and it's $199 at store.osbot.com and I would say if you're looking to up your game and
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you move around while you're on camera then this is going to be one of your very best options
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definitely one worth checking out that's all I got I hope to catch you in my next video
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