is that better ah shoot
sorry H how about now G thankfully this
is the last time I'll ever have to do that OBS spot sponsored this Showcase of
their OBS spot tiny a webcam with pan tilt Zoom functionality built in that
uses AI to keep you in the frame let's get this thing swapped out there we go
well definitely looks better but what about the tracking okay tracking l went
green hey I'm over here buddy over here buddy how you doing yeah there's your
box right there so we're going to we're going to check you out right
now let's start by opening this thing up pretty straightforward packaging that's
a really really nice soft foam they do
not want this thing getting damaged which is obviously a much larger concern
if you've got like a a gimal mounted camera right so you can see it's got one
two axes of movement so it can track its subject around like that it actually has
I think it's about 270° not that you should theoretically be moving around
that much it's got a dual microphone well it's hard to hold on to got to be
careful it's got a dual microphone array mic a non-slip thing on the bottom and
then it's actually also got a/ quar inch interface so you can mount it on a
little tripod on your desk or I mean really any anything else you want other
than that you've got interestingly a DC
5vt 1 aamp power jack and a
USBC input which would normally provide Power you know what that's probably so
that you could use it with something like an optical USB cable which wouldn't
provide Power in some kind of like Machine Vision application that's
something I yeah I wouldn't have initially thought of but that's kind of
a cool application for something like this as well also in the
Box we've got a USB a Toc cable
that hopefully was repackaged by our
Logistics guys because I would think it doesn't
come like that either that or I can
blame plof who prepped this episode oh
okay this appears to be some kind of
weighted or magnetic Mount or something is
this are you a magnet you're a
magnet and then I guess you could also use this too oh wait
oh hey there you go all right so the
magnet part is for the base of the obsbot so you can quickly take it off
and put it back on this is like a um
like a grippy pad and this would allow you to put it on top of I don't know if
I would put this on a laptop so
much oh okay yeah I don't know if I would put it on a laptop so much but
definitely on a desktop monitor I would expect that to sit pretty pretty well
let's here Andy You're you got the camera behind me right let's throw it on
a a desktop monitor I think is more reasonable there you go
yeah okay yeah that's more that's more like it all right let's
put it on the stand idea that Andy came
up with though and let's give the motion tracking a try let's just go ahead and
plug in our type- C cable and this it's power and data
because it's a copper cable you get this little startup animation and then boom
it's on so let's open up the software and tell it tap lock now it should start
tracking my face once it's detected that there is a face hey OBS spot how you
doing so one of the main applications of
something like this is not that you are too incompetent to point your webcam at
your face like I kind of implied at the beginning of the video the main application is if you're someone who
might have a tendency to lean as you talk or someone who kind of likes to
shift in their chair and get more comfortable and making it so that
whoever you're talking to is always able to see your face always centered in the
frame uh one of the other applications that obsbot has talked about is if
you're someone like a twitch streamer for example if you were to crop your
camera into just a little square that's like right down in the bottom of the
frame of the game you're playing then any small movement could start you know
cutting off the side of your head for example whereas with this it can track
you if you move and make sure that you're always in the correct part of the frame so that's that's actually pretty
darn cool it's got a few different modes so we can try that out this is also
pretty good yeah if you're if you're a lecturer who needs to kind of walk back
and forth across a whiteboard and point at different stuff this would absolutely
be an excellent way to handle that I mean we can even try why don't I why
don't I just stand up first oh were you were you ready for that okay well here
I'm not going to stand up just yet but let's just kind of slide over here and
and all right I'll give you guys a little geography lesson here all right
so this right here is where Linus Media
Group is so this is the center of the known universe right there ah it's
pretty responsive so the thing that this reminds me of most so far is actually
Center Stage which is a new feature from Apple that well basically does this
except it's actually using digital Zoom so it's zooming in and then moving
around the kind of doing a digital pan in order to track you whereas this
you're actually keeping the full image quality of the camera no matter where
you move so that's up to 1080p 30 FPS
720p 60 FPS uh there's a few different
modes though so tap unlock seems to make
it not track you tap lock seems to make it track you
hello yep okay cool you can digitally
Zoom it how granular is the control okay cool
and more importantly there's a few different modes so standard mode then
there's Headroom mode Headroom mode is more designed for tall users if they
want more tight framing to make sure that their head won't constantly be cut
off by the the edge of the frame and then they've got motion mode which is
more designed for like really Dynamic
presentations where you you want to always be in the frame so if I would oh
yeah so it tracks you way faster so if you were someone like a fitness
instructor and you're like yeah now we're moving over here yeah now we're
moving over here yeah now we're moving over here it's like hey oh okay I'm
going to keep up with this guy now we're gonna we're going to stand up here hey
we're we're doing the shakeing dance the shake and Bacon dance I'm going to head
over here hey obsbot what's up all right cool it's actually it's actually pretty
good now I'm just curious let's see if it can follow me if I manage to get out
of the frame okay I'm going over
here oh that feels like playing peekaboo
with like a baby I'm here it's like where'd he go where'd he
go hey I'm over here hey got
him okay that's that that's pretty cool
oh interesting so you can switch between multiple devices yeah like I said okay
they're apparently planning ahead for this being used in Machine Vision applications so they expect you to have
multiple devices So within the software you can switch between them Zoom it in
and out with uh software hot Keys uh put
it into preset positions okay that's pretty cool and then you can actually
put it to sleep so you can either uh
press sleep or you can do
this and that will actually put it into sleep mode and then the gimbal is just
right here so you can reset it and then you actually just have like a little
controller do data jig and then you have like multiple of
this you can do like multicam blacking y
yeah absolutely you could do you could do like a multicam live stream type thing the video quality is like it's
fine it's it's a webcam like you shouldn't have unrealistic expectations
but it's fine I would like a way to have
more granular control over things like the auto exposure it's very aggressive
it's all about making sure it's capturing what it's seeing versus making
sure that the colors are pleasing to the eye you know so my skin in particular
ends up looking quite washed out sometimes as it sort of quickly adjusts
to different lighting situations yeah this is a very challenging lighting
setup to be very clear guys yeah like we I'm I'm backlit by Studio lighting right
now now there's a couple gestures you can put your hand up to start autot
tracking or you can go like this apparently for 2x digital Zoom oh
interesting so now Zoom
heyy there we go and that's pretty much it it does cost $200 but considering the
price of pen tilt Zoom cameras in general and webcams as well it's
honestly not totally unreasonable oh actually there's one last thing Andy
they boast about their low light uh image quality so do you want to just like kill this light in front of and
let's just let's just see I'll let you guys be the judge so we're going to be
this is a very challenging scenario where I'm back lit and we turn off the
studio lighting but let's see how it handles it all right obsbot show me what
you got and I'll turn off the light yep
it's a webcam all right but with pan tilt Zoom so guys if you need something
a little like this we're going to have it linked down in the video description
thanks again to obsbot for sponsoring this video and to you guys for watching
it