Crazy AI-Powered Webcam Technology!

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now this video is going to be a little bit different because in this one I'm not playing with online software this time I'm playing with some Hardware so the people over at the camera company insta360 they saw that I had a Channel all about Ai and they said hey our new webcam has AI built into it you should check it out and I said okay let's check it out so they sent me this little guy here and it's pretty small actually here's a Rubik's Cube and here's the camera next to it it's about the same height I guess and what's cool about this camera is it's a webcam but it's got a gimbal on it it's got a three axis gimbal so it could spin this way it could spin up and down like this and it could spin this way so those are the three accesses on the three axis gimbal what's also cool about it is it's got this little screw here so that you can hook it onto a tripod but then just like any other webcam this part here folds out and then it just kind of loops around your monitors just like any other webcam would they also sent this little mini three-in-one tripod here and with this thing you can actually screw it onto this like so it locks into place but then this also opens and becomes a little tripod that you can use if you don't even want to put it on your monitor you can just set it on a tripod and put it right on your desk there's been a ton of videos that are doing reviews of this little camera gear if you look on YouTube you'll probably find 100 of them and they all kind of compare them to different cameras and I'm not going to do that in this video pretty much every review out there is going to tell you it's a really good camera and it's probably the best webcam on the market right now what I want to talk about is the AI features I'm an AI Channel I'm not a camera review Channel let's take a peek at all of the cool AI stuff that this thing can do now before I get into it I do want to point out that this camera has a half inch sensor on it which is great for a webcam it should give us like a DSLR or mirrorless camera style video and it can shoot in 4k but again it's the AI stuff that I'm really excited about I'm gonna hook this thing up we're gonna take a look at what the software looks like when you do hook it up and we're going to play with some of the features on it now if this is a camera that you're interested in it does sell for about 299 dollars so as far as webcams go it's on the higher end it probably has similar quality to this mirrorless Sony camera that I'm using for half the price and it's got this gimbal with cool AI technology built into it so let's go ahead and play around with it so this is what this camera looks like not too bad honestly it's got good color it's got good contrast and here's one thing that's really cool about having the gimbal on it is I can do stuff like this I can press a button here and it'll go Boop and it'll show you what's going on in my hands and I can just go hello look it's me it's a smiley face I could draw stuff for you my lights are reflecting off of it so it's kind of hard to read but I have like basically a top-down camera now I can go go to Future tools dot I oh and then I could bring it back to myself and now here I am again it seems like takes a second for it to adjust to the light because it comes back real bright but you can see it's finding my face too now here's where the AI stuff comes in it actually recognizes hand gestures so if I go like this and make an L sign watch this I can move my hand up and it zooms in on me and if I move my L hand down it'll zoom out and another thing I can do is let's say I want it to follow my face I could actually go like this put one hand up like this and now it just switched into tracking mode oh I could try to dodge my camera I can stand up if I want it'll follow me as I it'll follow me when I stand up I can try to go low and hide from it do stuff like this I could turn off the tracking mode and now I'm a little off frame so I've got my little joystick over here so I can adjust it manually with my joystick let's go ahead and adjust it so my head's a little bit closer to the top there like so it's got this really cool whiteboard mode here where if you have a white board you could put these little stickers in the corners of a whiteboard and then when you flip it into whiteboard mode it zooms into just the Whiteboard and you can give like a little peace sign or something like that and every time you give it the peace sign it'll switch between the Whiteboard and you so that's another cool AI now I don't have a whiteboard set up behind me right now so I can't really demonstrate that part but that's one of the other cool AI features that are built into this and let me turn the tracking back on all right so tracking's back on foreign it all right so let's go ahead and leave it on normal because I think normal seems the best so there's an AI Zoom here so let's go ahead and turn on the AI Zoom so right now it's zoomed in on my head when I scoot back it continues to zoom in on me and it kind of gives this like real cool like almost like cinematic effect like all right I'm gonna Zoom I'm gonna scoot my chair back watch this that's cool it just continues to zoom in and make sure that my face is still there so if I said on half body and then I zoom out you could see it tries to keep it cropped from the waist up now what happens if I put it on whole body if I zoom out I can stand up now all right so I'm going to turn off the AI Zoom that's kind of cool there's anti-flicker that's on auto you can actually turn on a manual focus here makes me really blurry and then I can focus it to the optimal level if I actually use my mouse you know finger Zoom here that Zooms in on my face as well so let's bring it up here like this let's zoom in on the guitars back here save this as a position call it my guitars now here's me here's my guitars and it seems to remember that I want this position one on auto tracking and when I switch to my guitars it turned off the auto tracking down here when I switch back to position one turned on auto tracking again so there's hot Keys as well that it looks like we can use and if you're someone like me who uses one of these stream decks you could program various hotkeys and just use your stream deck to switch positions I'd imagine as well this is my Sony a6400 camera now I am using the insta 360 camera so you can tell this one's a little bit more zoomed in and maybe a little less contrasty so you can see a difference but as far as webcams go this is pretty dang good I mean this is the Sony right here this is the insta 360. you can tell because it follows me around and this is what it looks like when I have both cameras going at the same time what's cool about this is you can see me on camera but it also allows me to you know show off what's on my whatever is below me right here so if I wanted to do product demos and I could go look at this look at how pretty this is yeah how nice is that pretty cool stuff I'll be using both of these cameras combine them together there's my crotch shot and then there's my guitars so one last thing I want to do here is take a quick peek at their website this is the insta 360 link so you can get a better view of what it looks like here we got 4K resolution AI tracking we've got the gesture control which I showed off that's another thing I haven't really tested is how quickly the auto focus works you can see it focuses in on that but it also follows it around too when I move it around so right now I'm looking over at my monitor to make sure it's on camera but it actually keeps it in frame for me if I really like this insta 360 camera I can see using it for a lot of video stuff I mean especially the tracking I can make some fun cinematic stuff using this so there you go there's my first ever look at a hardware tool instead of a software tool on this channel I want to thank insta360 for sending me this camera to play around with cost about 300 bucks if you want one yourself I'd say the camera quality on it's pretty dang good it definitely beats my Logitech Brio that I had before and definitely beats the Logitech c930 that I had before that not quite sure the camera quality is up to the same level as the Sony a6400 camera that I have here but it's also half of the price of that camera so as far as webcams go this is probably the best webcam I've used so far honestly I really like it a lot and I think it's pretty cool and hey if you like nerding out about all this cool Ai and Tech stuff like I do make sure you check out futuretools.io this is where I share all of the really cool tools that I come across and if it's pretty overwhelming you know do a little search let's say you're a YouTuber type in YouTube and see what kind of stuff comes up there's 51 Tools in here that are relevant and helpful to YouTube If even searching the site is too much for you join the free newsletter every single Friday I'll send you my 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