3D Printable Stand Lets You Try Continuity Camera With iOS 16 and macOS Ventura Right Now

[JPack]

This is completely and utterly false.

Right, I know plenty of people who enjoy having their iPhone held hostage during a Zoom or Teams call.

Professional streamers will want a dedicated camera, like Canon PowerShot.

People who care enough about image quality, but clip an iPhone to the display lid? Basically non-existent.

 

[Cognizant.]

Right, I know plenty of people who enjoy having their iPhone held hostage during a Zoom or Teams call.

If you don’t want to use it, great. But you don’t speak for everyone, which is literally evidenced by people in this very thread.

 

[JPack]

If you don’t want to use it, great. But you don’t speak for everyone, which is literally evidenced by people in this very thread.

Yes, the evidence speaks for itself. 😄

 

[ActionGaz]

My recommendation is to build a stand out of LEGO. Sure, it breaks occasionally but it works well most of the time.

 

[psxp]

I’ll wait for the cheap mounts that‘ll inevitably show up on Amazon.

Im with you, but many will wait for the $49.99 one from Apple

😝😜

 

[sevoneone]

This is completely and utterly false.

Indeed. I like to use my MacBook Pro in clamshell mode at work with a 21:9 display unless there is something I need the MacBook's overall superior display and color accuracy for. I 3D printed myself a stand to use my iPad or phone for video calls and it has been great. Hoping I can stack my phone up on that upper slot and use it with Continuity Camera too. https://www.printables.com/model/208784-3-device-macbook-stand-or-dock

 

[seanbperiod]

Just buy on etsy in a few weeks.

 

[Whathappened]

Unluckily I don't have a 3-D printer...

Find some friends?

 

[Hey Now]

Just print it twice with your 2D printer, you’ll have extra left over but that’s ok

 

[andrewxgx]

Dang, It's probably a whole lot cheaper too to make this on a 3D-printer.

dude, its Apple. probably cheaper to buy the 3d printer

 

[CarlJ]

I supposed this is for the people who own a 3d printer

Or who know how to use websites that'll print it for you and mail it to you. Or, some public libraries have printers that people can use.

 

[jcshas]

I’m fine with waiting. 😉

 

[seek3r]

Works too with duct tape.

 

[unchecked]

Fun for the first couple of times and then we give up and stick to the webcam.

What this feature will end up being used for is to show things other than ourselves.

Like if we need to show the dog and/or cat or the homework, instead of moving the entire laptop, we just move the phone.

It’s a nice-that-it’s-there gimmick for a quick glimpse of something else. But a gimmick nonetheless.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

I got a cheap 3D printer earlier this year without having any idea what I would do with it. However, it seems like I find something else I could print every week. A fun new toy.

 

[seek3r]

I am not clipping my phone to the very expensive screen of my very expensive laptop. WTF is Apple thinking here?

And on laptops with a notch, where do you even clip it? Right on top of the notch I guess. Notice that example is distinctly missing from any Apple promotional pictures.

You know that, like, every webcam in the world that isnt built in clips on, right? Even expensive ones. I also would like to introduce you to a product I owned (still do actually, it's... somewhere... prob should go find that box...) that apple made that was very expensive and clipped to my very expensive powerbook - the original isight (pic from wikipedia below)

 

[Ralfi]

Unluckily I don't have a 3-D printer...

Then get someone to 3D Print a 3D printer for you 😏

 

[jav6454]

Then get someone to 3D Print a 3D printer for you 😏

Unluckily no one I know even has one.

 

[EugW]

This will probably end up like Slofies and App Clips. Features that sound cool, but in reality don't gain traction.

Nobody will be dedicating their iPhone for a camera when their MacBook already has one.

If you want a sharper image, buy a 4K webcam.

I hope someone makes such a mount, but with a magnetic base for the 30" Apple Cinema HD Display and the 32" Apple Pro Display XDR. I use a 30" ACD as my main work monitor and right now it just has a crappy 1080p Lenovo webcam.

Using an iPhone would provide much better quality than most 4K webcams that cost several hundred $, and yes I would use an old iPhone for this, at least for some stuff. BTW, I believe it supports the XR (without Center Stage), and it just so happens we are retiring my wife's XR this year. She'll get a 14 Max.

 

[jav6454]

Craigs List is your friend. Run an ad and someone will jump at the opportunity to use theirs to "print" you one for cheap. I had a plastic Mercedes car part 3D printed for almost nothing compared to Mercedes wanting to replace a bunch of related parts so that I could get the one part I actually needed. Ran an ad on CL and the replacement part looks as good as the original.

That makes sense, I'll see if anyone bites for the job.

 

[red elma]

Why is it somehow "assumed" that a lot of people own 3D printers?
Neither I nor anybody I know own one.

 

[sirozha]

I don't understand why anyone with a MacBook or iMac would even need this, given they have webcams built-in.

For Mini and Studio users, I can see a use case I guess, but it seems to me that a decent Logitech webcam only costs a little more and would be much easier to deal with than constantly having to put the phone back in the stand.

Because cameras in the Macs suck.

 

[SenorWhyMe]

going to test this out soon probably tonight

 

[topdrawer]

for a second i thought i could print an iphone xr.

 

[Abazigal]

I don't understand why anyone with a MacBook or iMac would even need this, given they have webcams built-in.

For Mini and Studio users, I can see a use case I guess, but it seems to me that a decent Logitech webcam only costs a little more and would be much easier to deal with than constantly having to put the phone back in the stand.

I can think of one.

Kiap kiap model up virtual classroom zoom camera webcam

S$12 | Condition: New | Buy 2 for $20. Brand new U can use for zoom or any virtual classroom to show students what u r writing on the paper

www.carousell.sg

During the pandemic, some of my teacher friends bought this so they could project their teaching material to their students via zoom.

This continuity camera feature would have allowed them to do the same thing, at a much clearer resolution.

This will probably end up like Slofies and App Clips. Features that sound cool, but in reality don't gain traction.

Nobody will be dedicating their iPhone for a camera when their MacBook already has one.

If you want a sharper image, buy a 4K webcam.

I see myself using this feature from time to time when I am conducting presentations and to demonstrate something in real time, though I likely won’t be using it for normal zoom meetings.