macOS 13 Ventura Lets You Use Your iPhone's Camera as a Webcam
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Wildkraut
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And they will reject to repair the screen under warranty, just like when a "waterproof" iPhone gets wet.
Return Zero
macrumors 65816
1) the screens aren't made of just glass
2) this won't even put as much pressure as the act of opening the laptop does... if it can survive that over and over, it can surely survive the slightly levered weight of a phone
Cognizant.
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No, it isn’t. There are no laptop cameras on earth that would even remotely compare to this. People hook up full on DSLRs to their computer to use as a streaming cam. Why this puzzles some of you is beyond me. This allows for extremely high quality webcam streaming.
Danfango
macrumors 65816
Yep.
Same way if you stand behind the screen, wrap your fingers over the top and push with your thumbs.
This is simply retarded.
Cognizant.
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Nope.
Born2Run
macrumors 6502
I will definitely be using this... Mainly because I have a Mac mini and no webcam on my monitor, but it also looks amazing!
Curious if the image processing for this is in macOS or iOS... Also, does anyone know, if you are using DeskView, is the facecam image coming from the ultrawide camera also? or from one of the other cameras? If the later, I think that might be the first we're seeing two rear iPhone cameras operating simultaneously, no?
Born2Run
macrumors 6502
Surely that's different amounts of force and the iPhone isn't going to be pushing as hard!
But, at the end of the day, it's no big loss to anyone if you decide you don't want to use an excellent feature!
Cognizant.
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Any Mac will work with this as long as it gets the latest OS.
Danfango
macrumors 65816
Hey, we're talking at LEAST an inch-ounce of torque here. That screen is not going to last a day! 😆
performa_6400
macrumors regular
Kinda how I saw this. Especially with so many complaints about the new Studio Display camera.
Danfango
macrumors 65816
Never design for the successful path only. Someone will knock it and pop the screen.
Engineering 101.
Student of Life
macrumors 6502a
So no iPhone XS Max support 🥲
iPhaithful
macrumors regular
I think it's them realizing they put a TON of development in the rear-facing cameras on the phones so why not give them another pretty good use case? Also, most don't update their Macs as frequently as they do their phones so yes, this might be very good for someone with an older Mac that doesn't have the most updated cameras.
redheeler
macrumors G3
Even on the iPhone the back cameras are significantly better than the front camera. This isn't admitting that the front camera on the iPhone is better than the front camera on the Mac but that the iPhone's back cameras beat both.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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Something to think about, honestly.
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Born2Run
macrumors 6502
Because they will just release the mount and will refuse to test it beforehand... You're saying this is a terrible design because one clumsy idiot might accidentally bang into the screen and pop it out, so that means the whole thing needs to be redesigned or abandoned!
What if someone accidentally hits the screen with another object, surely that makes all screens poorly designed!
George Dawes
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Bit of a kludge , most un-apple like tbh
No.
It’s just providing the user a secondary option if you want it. Everyone here knows the Mac camera is terrible, but that’s not what Apple is doing by addressing that. They’re just cross utilizing technology.
Danfango
macrumors 65816
One of the parts of a product engineer's responsibility is making sure that the product is not promoted in ways it shouldn't be used or will compromise the reputation of the device by showing the user how to effectively break it. This was a cock up by Apple.