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today i get to finally answer the question what would happen if a camera

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company decided to make a webcam

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and insta360 sponsored this video to have a look at this because i've never

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seen a webcam quite like this one as a solution and i'm excited to see all

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their camera engineering that they've done over the years

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what that means in a a more simple camera device that the average person

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would use like a webcam wow

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it's very small but it has a gimbal

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okay okay soft touch boxes in soft touch

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boxes means friction is not your friend

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so we have some stickers so they included a type c to a adapter

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if your laptop doesn't have um type c in it which is nice and then i assume this

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is a c to c cable yes okay and no this looks actually like

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pretty decently long that's good for a webcam because you want to be able to

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place it exactly right for your computer or your desktop i think this is mostly

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for desktop users but i'm sure it'll work totally fine on the laptop as well

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and then we also have a oh is this a little a little cleaning cloth

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okay and then they also included these there's only three of them

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i don't know if they're supposed to be four of them these little stickers

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are for a white board and they will allow the gimbal

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to track a whiteboard's content and so

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because this thing has a gimbal which is a really cool feature of it

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it moves around and follows you and it has a bunch of other different modes

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that kind of use utilize the gimbal's

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benefits we also have this mini two in one tripod it's your

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standard action cam mount seems nice enough pretty basic

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there you go put your camera on here and you can kind of put it wherever you want

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and then i've seen this mounting bracket before it's pretty common on other like suction cup devices i don't know

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how often i would personally use something like this but it's nice to have i think this is an optional

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accessory i don't know how much it is but it probably isn't like the 50

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or a little bit above or below that range oh that's cool so then you

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can extend it oh you can kind of actually even use it like

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you could use this camera selfie style that's actually i wonder if that would

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work the camera is pretty small which is really nice like it fits

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in the palm of my hand and it is 4k

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f 1.8 it's actually using a half inch

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sensor now if you guys watched my previous video on the xiaomi 12s ultra i

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talked about in that video one inch sensor half inch sensor neither one is

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actually one inch or half an inch but considering the size of this camera

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that sensor size is still large ignore the literal naming of it just know that

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if it's a one inch sensor or a half inch sensor it's still big even though it's

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not physically one inch or half inch it also has phase detection autofocus which

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is really cool it's the kind of thing that you only see in professional

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cameras like all of our sony cameras have phase section autofocus and it is

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superior and usually more accurate and quick than contrast-based autofocus so

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if it's just like i have my laptop here

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sits on top with the standard mount just like this

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look at that okay we got a blue light indicator oh

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and the gimbal is calibrating wow just like that

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i haven't even set up any software i wasn't actually going to test this on my laptop but

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just to give you guys a sense of like what it would be like on your laptop actually i think you can see one of the

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features of this thing right off the bat after 10 seconds of inactivity

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this thing goes into privacy mode so a lot of people are always concerned

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with stuff like this especially one that can like track you and move with you

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obviously you don't want your webcam watching you at all times of the day so

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whenever you're not actually using it it just points straight down it's a nice

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built-in feature and it's on by default like i haven't done anything to this

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there's not even software installed so that's very good on insta360s part to

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implement something like that all right so the last thing i want to mention before we actually move over to the

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desktop and try this thing properly on a desktop setup is this camera is 4k

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up to 30 FPS so i'm really curious to

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see that the quality of the 4k because a lot of things have 4k but

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insta360 has made cameras for a while now so i actually think that their 4k

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will be pretty good for webcam this looks good

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like to be very clear this is basically as i an ideal a setting as you can make

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we have a light here we have a nice ambient top light up there let's test

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some of these modes so this thing has a lot of different gestures that it can

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follow as well as an HDR mode a desk u

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mode an overhead mode we already talked about the privacy mode but there's a lot

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to go through here and i want to try everything at least once so i'm in the

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link controller software pretty simply laid out i've never looked at this

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before but it seems uh intuitive enough

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buttons are big man guys i can't get over how good this is let me see if does

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it track my hand

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wow and that's actually pretty good minimum

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focus too so minimum focus on the camera is four inches which i actually think is

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excellent you could hold up here actually

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let's hold mr shiny boy

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and is it gonna pick this up because it's oh hey there we go and back to me

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and here and see okay guys that's that's

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phase section autofocus that's really cool and i'm impressed by the autofocus

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you can also have exposure compensation here so i can

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lower the exposure say i think the auto exposure it's exposing mainly for my

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face which is really good because obviously that's the most important

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important part of the image when you're using a camera like this generally

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speaking but you notice

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that you also change your brightness contrast saturation i'm not going to touch that stuff because i feel like the

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default is probably fine we've got gimbal control here

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wait let's see what this does oh that's cool

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well that's actually that's smooth too you can see the stabilization of the

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gimbal really working because this

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feels very robotic but in a good way because that's

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basically what a gimbal should be doing keeping it this steady

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um and then i can reset it oh

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oh you have and then you can have preset positions okay so this is my position

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one and then say i was like co-hosting at some point or somebody

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jumped in you could be like and this can be like the designated area that they

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jump in from bell come over here so i'm talking to the camera blah blah

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blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and then bell comes over and bam

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right there and it goes right to him too

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that is and then right back to me okay wow that's really cool

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uh all right let's see what else we can have fun with it gives you the gestures

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in the um software which is actually nice so if i press l

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it will in theory zoom oh okay so it's like let's try this

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l and then i'll push it up zooms me in and then l

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down zooms me out that's pretty responsive it's a little bit of noise

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but not on like not unpleasant noise and

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i think this is one of the sharpest weapons i've ever used that's for sure you also can do manual focus

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so if you know that you don't want it to leave focus and you want like okay i'm

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doing something and then i'm going to do something over there i want to turn something off and you roll back over

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and it's not in focus perfectly so you could be like

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doing something privately that you're dealing with on your phone

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and even from here they wouldn't see what you were doing

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i don't know just just an idea i mean that's cool like if you don't want your focus to just constantly be changing and

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you know you're always gonna be at one point and or there's something wrong with the

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autofocus considering your location you can just set it that's nice so you can

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tell our light back there very bright

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i'm going to use that as like a fake window light in this instance and check

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the HDR mode so in order to get the HDR mode to work you have to go into 1080p

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i'm going to start my recording on the camera again so we're in 1080p now

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honestly the 1080p still looks pretty good HDR

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mode cool okay so

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you can clearly tell that the image is slightly less saturated

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and the highlights and the blacks are kind of shifted but

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that being said i can see the diffusion

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now before we couldn't so you actually can see detail in a light source like

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that and i'm sure you could actually edit if you had if you wanted to take

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the recording from the actual insta360 you could probably edit

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to have a little bit more saturation in the video and kind of compensate for how

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much flatter it is overall you can also mirror your image which is a nice

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standard feature i'm sure that a lot of people will use depending on their situation

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there's an anti-flicker setting here and our tv is flickering back there

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so this is at 50 hertz and this is at 60 hertz oh the tv

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right here was flickering previously and now it is not now that i set this to

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60 hertz that's nice one of the coolest and probably most used features of a

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webcam that is set up like this on a gimbal

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is auto tracking so you just palm gesture like this

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and then you'll notice that the leds on the camera flashed and then now whoa

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it's uh it's tracking me actively now i'm over here

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wow that's pretty fast

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so you really could be moving around a lot

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and this thing's gonna do

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a really good job both keeping you in focus and in frame so there's a couple

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other things we can try there's a desk view mode so bell has provided me with

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this very well written important document

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and if you wanted to show that on your desk nice so the camera goes at a 45 degree

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angle i believe and it just compensates the view

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which is very cool because typically if you just took a

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camera and you were pointing it directly at this it wouldn't give you

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a top-down feeling view they're clearly cropping the view in order to give you

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this perspective on it which hey it works look at that like i i clearly can

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read this if you are showing somebody

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like a literally a legal document you could probably read it through this

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camera overhead mode so this gives you a actually top

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uncompensated view also a stabilized view so you could like totally

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use this for say you're doing like a cooking stream now you have a top-down

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camera that can kind of move with whatever you're doing for those of you

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that stream if you stream on tiktok or instagram live

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this streamer mode basically gives you a 50 to 60 FPS depending on what you need

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vertical video output on the camera so i'm in obs right now and we've actually

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made the insta360 camera one of the sources and as you can see the camera

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has turned itself vertically and you're hearing them right now but this

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is what the dual recording mics on the instant 360 sound like so i'm going to

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talk directly at the camera so you guys can get a sense of what it would be like if you were talking

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on a stream with only using the mics on this camera

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now often i'm sure a lot of you will have your own

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streaming mic set up but if you don't have it or you're in a pinch and you're

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like in a coffee shop with your laptop this is what it sounds like the last

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feature that i want to test out is the whiteboard mode okay so we have our

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whiteboard set up let's see how this works you give it a

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peace sign as your hand gesture and then i believe it'll just navigate

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itself over to the whiteboard so say you're giving a lesson or something and

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you want to talk about something on the whiteboard it'll find the whiteboard and then look

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at this it will zoom in on just the contents of

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the whiteboard and so you throw up the piece symbol again

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i think you do it it comes out back to you okay so let's try that

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full so i'm talking blah blah giving a lesson now look at this whiteboard

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i'll let the camera find the whiteboard and then it'll lock on to the four

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points that we have and bam

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you are looking at only so

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you can point at specific things on your whiteboard gesture

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take in all the information for the people on the lesson and then give the

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piece symbol one more time and the camera will go right back to you that's

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pretty cool so obviously guys this is not a review insta360 just sponsored

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this video for us to check this thing out and then this is only my first

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impressions but that in consideration my first questions are i'm impressed by

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this thing i like it a lot here's the price that we got from insta360

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and i think that despite the price

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you're kind of getting a pretty all-in-one solution so

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if that's something that you're looking for if you want a low-profile camera and you're in the

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market for it consider this as an option thank you guys for watching if you

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enjoyed this video you can check out more about the insta360 link in the

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video description down below and please subscribe i'll see you later