today i get to finally answer the question what would happen if a camera
company decided to make a webcam
and insta360 sponsored this video to have a look at this because i've never
seen a webcam quite like this one as a solution and i'm excited to see all
their camera engineering that they've done over the years
what that means in a a more simple camera device that the average person
would use like a webcam wow
it's very small but it has a gimbal
okay okay soft touch boxes in soft touch
boxes means friction is not your friend
so we have some stickers so they included a type c to a adapter
if your laptop doesn't have um type c in it which is nice and then i assume this
is a c to c cable yes okay and no this looks actually like
pretty decently long that's good for a webcam because you want to be able to
place it exactly right for your computer or your desktop i think this is mostly
for desktop users but i'm sure it'll work totally fine on the laptop as well
and then we also have a oh is this a little a little cleaning cloth
okay and then they also included these there's only three of them
i don't know if they're supposed to be four of them these little stickers
are for a white board and they will allow the gimbal
to track a whiteboard's content and so
because this thing has a gimbal which is a really cool feature of it
it moves around and follows you and it has a bunch of other different modes
that kind of use utilize the gimbal's
benefits we also have this mini two in one tripod it's your
standard action cam mount seems nice enough pretty basic
there you go put your camera on here and you can kind of put it wherever you want
and then i've seen this mounting bracket before it's pretty common on other like suction cup devices i don't know
how often i would personally use something like this but it's nice to have i think this is an optional
accessory i don't know how much it is but it probably isn't like the 50
or a little bit above or below that range oh that's cool so then you
can extend it oh you can kind of actually even use it like
you could use this camera selfie style that's actually i wonder if that would
work the camera is pretty small which is really nice like it fits
in the palm of my hand and it is 4k
f 1.8 it's actually using a half inch
sensor now if you guys watched my previous video on the xiaomi 12s ultra i
talked about in that video one inch sensor half inch sensor neither one is
actually one inch or half an inch but considering the size of this camera
that sensor size is still large ignore the literal naming of it just know that
if it's a one inch sensor or a half inch sensor it's still big even though it's
not physically one inch or half inch it also has phase detection autofocus which
is really cool it's the kind of thing that you only see in professional
cameras like all of our sony cameras have phase section autofocus and it is
superior and usually more accurate and quick than contrast-based autofocus so
if it's just like i have my laptop here
sits on top with the standard mount just like this
look at that okay we got a blue light indicator oh
and the gimbal is calibrating wow just like that
i haven't even set up any software i wasn't actually going to test this on my laptop but
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
features of this thing right off the bat after 10 seconds of inactivity
this thing goes into privacy mode so a lot of people are always concerned
with stuff like this especially one that can like track you and move with you
obviously you don't want your webcam watching you at all times of the day so
whenever you're not actually using it it just points straight down it's a nice
built-in feature and it's on by default like i haven't done anything to this
there's not even software installed so that's very good on insta360s part to
implement something like that all right so the last thing i want to mention before we actually move over to the
desktop and try this thing properly on a desktop setup is this camera is 4k
up to 30 FPS so i'm really curious to
see that the quality of the 4k because a lot of things have 4k but
insta360 has made cameras for a while now so i actually think that their 4k
will be pretty good for webcam this looks good
like to be very clear this is basically as i an ideal a setting as you can make
we have a light here we have a nice ambient top light up there let's test
some of these modes so this thing has a lot of different gestures that it can
follow as well as an HDR mode a desk u
mode an overhead mode we already talked about the privacy mode but there's a lot
to go through here and i want to try everything at least once so i'm in the
link controller software pretty simply laid out i've never looked at this
before but it seems uh intuitive enough
buttons are big man guys i can't get over how good this is let me see if does
it track my hand
wow and that's actually pretty good minimum
focus too so minimum focus on the camera is four inches which i actually think is
excellent you could hold up here actually
let's hold mr shiny boy
and is it gonna pick this up because it's oh hey there we go and back to me
and here and see okay guys that's that's
phase section autofocus that's really cool and i'm impressed by the autofocus
you can also have exposure compensation here so i can
lower the exposure say i think the auto exposure it's exposing mainly for my
face which is really good because obviously that's the most important
important part of the image when you're using a camera like this generally
speaking but you notice
that you also change your brightness contrast saturation i'm not going to touch that stuff because i feel like the
default is probably fine we've got gimbal control here
wait let's see what this does oh that's cool
well that's actually that's smooth too you can see the stabilization of the
gimbal really working because this
feels very robotic but in a good way because that's
basically what a gimbal should be doing keeping it this steady
um and then i can reset it oh
oh you have and then you can have preset positions okay so this is my position
one and then say i was like co-hosting at some point or somebody
jumped in you could be like and this can be like the designated area that they
jump in from bell come over here so i'm talking to the camera blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and then bell comes over and bam
right there and it goes right to him too
that is and then right back to me okay wow that's really cool
uh all right let's see what else we can have fun with it gives you the gestures
in the um software which is actually nice so if i press l
it will in theory zoom oh okay so it's like let's try this
l and then i'll push it up zooms me in and then l
down zooms me out that's pretty responsive it's a little bit of noise
but not on like not unpleasant noise and
i think this is one of the sharpest weapons i've ever used that's for sure you also can do manual focus
so if you know that you don't want it to leave focus and you want like okay i'm
doing something and then i'm going to do something over there i want to turn something off and you roll back over
and it's not in focus perfectly so you could be like
doing something privately that you're dealing with on your phone
and even from here they wouldn't see what you were doing
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
you know you're always gonna be at one point and or there's something wrong with the
autofocus considering your location you can just set it that's nice so you can
tell our light back there very bright
i'm going to use that as like a fake window light in this instance and check
the HDR mode so in order to get the HDR mode to work you have to go into 1080p
i'm going to start my recording on the camera again so we're in 1080p now
honestly the 1080p still looks pretty good HDR
mode cool okay so
you can clearly tell that the image is slightly less saturated
and the highlights and the blacks are kind of shifted but
that being said i can see the diffusion
now before we couldn't so you actually can see detail in a light source like
that and i'm sure you could actually edit if you had if you wanted to take
the recording from the actual insta360 you could probably edit
to have a little bit more saturation in the video and kind of compensate for how
much flatter it is overall you can also mirror your image which is a nice
standard feature i'm sure that a lot of people will use depending on their situation
there's an anti-flicker setting here and our tv is flickering back there
so this is at 50 hertz and this is at 60 hertz oh the tv
right here was flickering previously and now it is not now that i set this to
60 hertz that's nice one of the coolest and probably most used features of a
webcam that is set up like this on a gimbal
is auto tracking so you just palm gesture like this
and then you'll notice that the leds on the camera flashed and then now whoa
it's uh it's tracking me actively now i'm over here
wow that's pretty fast
so you really could be moving around a lot
and this thing's gonna do
a really good job both keeping you in focus and in frame so there's a couple
other things we can try there's a desk view mode so bell has provided me with
this very well written important document
and if you wanted to show that on your desk nice so the camera goes at a 45 degree
angle i believe and it just compensates the view
which is very cool because typically if you just took a
camera and you were pointing it directly at this it wouldn't give you
a top-down feeling view they're clearly cropping the view in order to give you
this perspective on it which hey it works look at that like i i clearly can
read this if you are showing somebody
like a literally a legal document you could probably read it through this
camera overhead mode so this gives you a actually top
uncompensated view also a stabilized view so you could like totally
use this for say you're doing like a cooking stream now you have a top-down
camera that can kind of move with whatever you're doing for those of you
that stream if you stream on tiktok or instagram live
this streamer mode basically gives you a 50 to 60 FPS depending on what you need
vertical video output on the camera so i'm in obs right now and we've actually
made the insta360 camera one of the sources and as you can see the camera
has turned itself vertically and you're hearing them right now but this
is what the dual recording mics on the instant 360 sound like so i'm going to
talk directly at the camera so you guys can get a sense of what it would be like if you were talking
on a stream with only using the mics on this camera
now often i'm sure a lot of you will have your own
streaming mic set up but if you don't have it or you're in a pinch and you're
like in a coffee shop with your laptop this is what it sounds like the last
feature that i want to test out is the whiteboard mode okay so we have our
whiteboard set up let's see how this works you give it a
peace sign as your hand gesture and then i believe it'll just navigate
itself over to the whiteboard so say you're giving a lesson or something and
you want to talk about something on the whiteboard it'll find the whiteboard and then look
at this it will zoom in on just the contents of
the whiteboard and so you throw up the piece symbol again
i think you do it it comes out back to you okay so let's try that
full so i'm talking blah blah giving a lesson now look at this whiteboard
i'll let the camera find the whiteboard and then it'll lock on to the four
points that we have and bam
you are looking at only so
you can point at specific things on your whiteboard gesture
take in all the information for the people on the lesson and then give the
piece symbol one more time and the camera will go right back to you that's
pretty cool so obviously guys this is not a review insta360 just sponsored
this video for us to check this thing out and then this is only my first
impressions but that in consideration my first questions are i'm impressed by
this thing i like it a lot here's the price that we got from insta360
and i think that despite the price
you're kind of getting a pretty all-in-one solution so
if that's something that you're looking for if you want a low-profile camera and you're in the
market for it consider this as an option thank you guys for watching if you
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