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is that better ah shoot

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sorry H how about now G thankfully this

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is the last time I'll ever have to do that OBS spot sponsored this Showcase of

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their OBS spot tiny a webcam with pan tilt Zoom functionality built in that

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uses AI to keep you in the frame let's get this thing swapped out there we go

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well definitely looks better but what about the tracking okay tracking l went

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green hey I'm over here buddy over here buddy how you doing yeah there's your

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box right there so we're going to we're going to check you out right

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now let's start by opening this thing up pretty straightforward packaging that's

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a really really nice soft foam they do

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not want this thing getting damaged which is obviously a much larger concern

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if you've got like a a gimal mounted camera right so you can see it's got one

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two axes of movement so it can track its subject around like that it actually has

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I think it's about 270° not that you should theoretically be moving around

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that much it's got a dual microphone well it's hard to hold on to got to be

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careful it's got a dual microphone array mic a non-slip thing on the bottom and

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then it's actually also got a/ quar inch interface so you can mount it on a

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little tripod on your desk or I mean really any anything else you want other

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than that you've got interestingly a DC

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5vt 1 aamp power jack and a

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USBC input which would normally provide Power you know what that's probably so

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that you could use it with something like an optical USB cable which wouldn't

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provide Power in some kind of like Machine Vision application that's

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something I yeah I wouldn't have initially thought of but that's kind of

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a cool application for something like this as well also in the

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Box we've got a USB a Toc cable

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that hopefully was repackaged by our

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Logistics guys because I would think it doesn't

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come like that either that or I can

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blame plof who prepped this episode oh

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okay this appears to be some kind of

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weighted or magnetic Mount or something is

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this are you a magnet you're a

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magnet and then I guess you could also use this too oh wait

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oh hey there you go all right so the

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magnet part is for the base of the obsbot so you can quickly take it off

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and put it back on this is like a um

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like a grippy pad and this would allow you to put it on top of I don't know if

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I would put this on a laptop so

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much oh okay yeah I don't know if I would put it on a laptop so much but

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definitely on a desktop monitor I would expect that to sit pretty pretty well

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let's here Andy You're you got the camera behind me right let's throw it on

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a a desktop monitor I think is more reasonable there you go

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yeah okay yeah that's more that's more like it all right let's

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put it on the stand idea that Andy came

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up with though and let's give the motion tracking a try let's just go ahead and

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plug in our type- C cable and this it's power and data

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because it's a copper cable you get this little startup animation and then boom

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it's on so let's open up the software and tell it tap lock now it should start

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tracking my face once it's detected that there is a face hey OBS spot how you

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doing so one of the main applications of

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something like this is not that you are too incompetent to point your webcam at

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your face like I kind of implied at the beginning of the video the main application is if you're someone who

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might have a tendency to lean as you talk or someone who kind of likes to

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shift in their chair and get more comfortable and making it so that

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whoever you're talking to is always able to see your face always centered in the

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frame uh one of the other applications that obsbot has talked about is if

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you're someone like a twitch streamer for example if you were to crop your

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camera into just a little square that's like right down in the bottom of the

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frame of the game you're playing then any small movement could start you know

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cutting off the side of your head for example whereas with this it can track

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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

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darn cool it's got a few different modes so we can try that out this is also

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pretty good yeah if you're if you're a lecturer who needs to kind of walk back

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and forth across a whiteboard and point at different stuff this would absolutely

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be an excellent way to handle that I mean we can even try why don't I why

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don't I just stand up first oh were you were you ready for that okay well here

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I'm not going to stand up just yet but let's just kind of slide over here and

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and all right I'll give you guys a little geography lesson here all right

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so this right here is where Linus Media

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Group is so this is the center of the known universe right there ah it's

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pretty responsive so the thing that this reminds me of most so far is actually

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Center Stage which is a new feature from Apple that well basically does this

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except it's actually using digital Zoom so it's zooming in and then moving

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around the kind of doing a digital pan in order to track you whereas this

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you're actually keeping the full image quality of the camera no matter where

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you move so that's up to 1080p 30 FPS

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720p 60 FPS uh there's a few different

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modes though so tap unlock seems to make

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it not track you tap lock seems to make it track you

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hello yep okay cool you can digitally

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Zoom it how granular is the control okay cool

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and more importantly there's a few different modes so standard mode then

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there's Headroom mode Headroom mode is more designed for tall users if they

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want more tight framing to make sure that their head won't constantly be cut

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off by the the edge of the frame and then they've got motion mode which is

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more designed for like really Dynamic

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presentations where you you want to always be in the frame so if I would oh

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yeah so it tracks you way faster so if you were someone like a fitness

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instructor and you're like yeah now we're moving over here yeah now we're

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moving over here yeah now we're moving over here it's like hey oh okay I'm

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going to keep up with this guy now we're gonna we're going to stand up here hey

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we're we're doing the shakeing dance the shake and Bacon dance I'm going to head

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over here hey obsbot what's up all right cool it's actually it's actually pretty

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good now I'm just curious let's see if it can follow me if I manage to get out

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of the frame okay I'm going over

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here oh that feels like playing peekaboo

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with like a baby I'm here it's like where'd he go where'd he

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go hey I'm over here hey got

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him okay that's that that's pretty cool

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oh interesting so you can switch between multiple devices yeah like I said okay

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they're apparently planning ahead for this being used in Machine Vision applications so they expect you to have

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multiple devices So within the software you can switch between them Zoom it in

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and out with uh software hot Keys uh put

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it into preset positions okay that's pretty cool and then you can actually

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put it to sleep so you can either uh

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press sleep or you can do

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this and that will actually put it into sleep mode and then the gimbal is just

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right here so you can reset it and then you actually just have like a little

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controller do data jig and then you have like multiple of

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this you can do like multicam blacking y

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yeah absolutely you could do you could do like a multicam live stream type thing the video quality is like it's

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fine it's it's a webcam like you shouldn't have unrealistic expectations

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but it's fine I would like a way to have

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more granular control over things like the auto exposure it's very aggressive

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it's all about making sure it's capturing what it's seeing versus making

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sure that the colors are pleasing to the eye you know so my skin in particular

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ends up looking quite washed out sometimes as it sort of quickly adjusts

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to different lighting situations yeah this is a very challenging lighting

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setup to be very clear guys yeah like we I'm I'm backlit by Studio lighting right

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now now there's a couple gestures you can put your hand up to start autot

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tracking or you can go like this apparently for 2x digital Zoom oh

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interesting so now Zoom

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heyy there we go and that's pretty much it it does cost $200 but considering the

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price of pen tilt Zoom cameras in general and webcams as well it's

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honestly not totally unreasonable oh actually there's one last thing Andy

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they boast about their low light uh image quality so do you want to just like kill this light in front of and

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let's just let's just see I'll let you guys be the judge so we're going to be

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this is a very challenging scenario where I'm back lit and we turn off the

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studio lighting but let's see how it handles it all right obsbot show me what

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you got and I'll turn off the light yep

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it's a webcam all right but with pan tilt Zoom so guys if you need something

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a little like this we're going to have it linked down in the video description

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thanks again to obsbot for sponsoring this video and to you guys for watching

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it