I'm sorry anchor today we have the anchor work b600 what
is it video bar it's basically just a webcam but a pretty fancy webcam they
call it like a studio all-in-one kind of thing now this is video sponsored by
anchor work and I agree to do this on one condition I get to take it apart at
the end so let's give her we have three
of them and one of them's not surviving the day oh fancy look at this download the
software I already did so it looks like that you get a variety of different
chargers they didn't feel like localizing it for different regions so
you get a bunch of different options here we go oh oh yeah this thing's big
look at this it has this kind of like I don't know what you call this fabric it
reminds me of um oh what was that really stupid PC that HP made ages ago they
made an all-in-one that was like a trash can Mac but covered in fabric yeah
Brazilian wave yeah I think it's hilarious this has like a really
satisfying heft to it though feels decent there might be some aluminum in
here it feels like plastic how much does it cost 220 us so the basic operation is
you have a light bar that flips up like that so it not only functions as a light
bar but also a privacy filter so you don't have to worry about you know
people looking at you through your webcam when it's off so in here you get
a 2K sensor so that's 1440p 16x9 that's
way higher resolution than your laptop
camera probably is chances are it's like a 720p job maybe 1080p if you're lucky
what do you think the bit rates are Brandon and like Skype you're not
getting yeah you're not getting 4K through that but the better the image
that you put in the better an image you are going to get out kind of no matter
what you also have four microphones in this I don't quite know what the layout
is but I'm guessing two of them are to pick up your voice and two of them are
for noise canceling did you say there's speakers in this jono yep wow I wonder
if those are any good first let's do a little Baseline reading here so here's
our test this is the XPS 15 webcam and
uh if it can't beat this the video is not going up because this laptop has a
terrible webcam it comes with this little like monitor clamp chummy but
also in the bottom it has a quarter 20 thread so you can put it on a tripod or
something like that this is going to be really big for my laptop I feel like
this is supposed to be used on like a desktop oh geez that's pretty what a
unit that is beautiful
oh I do wonder if it has Windows hello I didn't see it mentioned so I'm guessing
not I also don't know if I can test that either way because this laptop has
Windows hello and I think they'll get mad at each other one unfortunate thing
is that you have to have two USBS going into this I'm guessing because this
light probably draws a little bit of current and the other one for data I do
appreciate that they included type c for this but I do kind of wish they had a
type c to a adapter yeah Riley take a look at this webcam
is it 4K no it's 1440p
it's definitely not 8K you're asking the wrong questions here Riley
it has a light bar oh yeah geez no one
wants an 8K webcam Riley go away
uh it seems like that the anchor software and OBS don't like each other
very much so set up your settings in here close it and then start streaming
if that's what you plan on using this for wow that's a lot better than the XPS
webcam like it damn well better be like a 200 webcam as opposed to one of the
worst laptop cameras but it's it is way better first of all let's just let's
start with this light
okay that's not that's not doing a whole lot can we turn off the lights yeah so
one tap on the side turns it on and off and there's a little slider in the
center that can change the brightness for you
so it looks like I can change the color temperature
let's try blue that's very blue looks kind of odd I personally like it right
around there it's a little bit on the warmer side but not too bad let's see
what brightness does yeah that's a that's a brightness slider for sure now
sharpness oh geez that's a pretty scary let's
let's just turn that down saturation looks like I got a bad spray tan now if
that's what you're into um and going the other way I look like
I'm dead cool and finally the contrast ratio
let's go in here uh yep so I guess what we've learned is don't touch these
sliders because the auto settings are pretty good let's see here we have a
couple different field of views so 65 is
kind of zoomed in 78 is standard and
looks fine to me and finally we have self frame how good is it let's find out
come over here oh
hello can you zoom in anymore let's see
let me move over here aha it is tracking me hey jono do you want
to do a real world test yeah how do I sound you're looking all sharp yeah you
look all sharp I can see like almost like every strand of your ear
and like behind you the foam I can see all the foam bits yeah your forehead
looks super blown out so uh yeah you need to get one of these come come grab
the other one you sound the same like anywhere in that room
I don't know find out so I'm going to speak
and then I'm going to walk around the room so I'm going to talk and keep on
talking and walk around here and continue talking and let me know if that
sounded just totally fine as I did that the anchor webcam would just kind of
like start boosting the audio so I can definitely hear that okay now let's try
it with the one that's built into this
computer dude does that sound different yeah I can definitely hear some sort of
I think the fans going yeah the the capture laptop's really
given her can you hear me fine from over here yeah I can definitely tell that
you're far away look it and I do have noise suppression just totally off in
teams so this is all webcam and not
teams doing it sorry I'm getting distracted Jonah but I want to do a
little crab Rave for a second yeah this is better than a lot of laptops
switch to the XPS speakers
thank you
this is the sort of thing where like it's obviously not as loud or generally
as good as the XPS 15 speakers but they
didn't do what a lot of small speakers do and make it sound terrible they could
have easily made this twice as loud probably by overdriving the speakers and
having it just be a distorted mess but instead it's like pretty clean I'm
guessing for conference calls it'll be more than adequate all right second
unboxing I'm sorry Mr webcam for what's
about to happen to you but uh
I Wanna Have Some Fun first thing it appears that you can take this base off
we'll start with that I have a bad feeling we're going to have to do a
little bit of cutting here soon there's a way to get in through here that would
be amazing there even oh it's another quarter 20 on the bottom though that's nice to see I'm sorry anchor
this is never going back together the same way
okay so the back has a couple plastic clips and a lot of tape oh it's actually
kind of like foamy tape as well so it probably helps a bit with uh the sound
of it is this oh comes apart right like that oh there's
our speakers look at these so they're packaged on
either end firing outwards I guess which is kind of
strange but at the same time like where else are you going to put them here got
a little metal shield here that's probably just for Emi compliance crap so
just making sure that this doesn't you know put out random electromagnetic
radiation crap and doesn't accept it either oh this also acts as a little
heat spreader so we're cooling these two chips right here and this right here has
a little bit of foam on top probably just to keep this clipping oh this one
right here is a USB interface chip that
makes sense there's probably just do power management crap we didn't need to
cut the mesh that was just unfortunate before you say it in the
comments I am not water cooling a webcam
so right here we have the rock chip RV 1126 apparently it's a quad core that
has 2.0 tops I don't know what tops are
but oh this is a risk 5 processor that's sick we did a video with them a while
ago and they're integrating their chips into a bunch of different you know stuff
like this where you don't necessarily need all the overhead of ARM or x86
chips and you just want to you know get an image off of it it looks like this
xmos chip right here is what is doing all of the AI processing but it is super
cool that they're doing the AI processing on chip instead of in their
software so it'll just work when you plug it in instead of having to install
anchor software for it to work which makes sense do you do there's the
speakers now on to the star of the show though let's take a look at this sensor
here's the camera module crack it open I want to see how big the sensor is we got
to go all the way yeah so I just broke the lens off it seems like that they
attached it just using a couple bits of solder which makes sense it looks like
at the back here we have the IR filter every digital camera is an infrared
camera you just need to filter that out otherwise everyone looks super weird it
seems like this is a voice coil you probably can't really tell but the
autofocus is done by moving this in and out ever
so slightly and I'm guessing it's done in a similar
way to how a speaker works and finally we have the sensor yeah there it is it's
so little just Powers the light and the
rest of this looks like it just goes towards the touch controls on the sides
and the front so there you go check your work b600 at the link down below uh
it looks like this or like this on the inside huge thanks for letting us take
it apart guys if you have another video that you want to watch go watch the walk
car that was fun tons of word for it