Creative Webcam Live! Motion- Titanium
With the Creative WebCam Live! Motion, you'll get ultra-wide, panoramic shots you can broadcast easily, through high-quality video. Use the smooth pan & tilt motion to get a wider view, which you can share with vivid, real-life color and smooth 30-frame per second display. It also features Smart face-tracking to follow your motions, automatic panorama creation and a multi-attach base for positioning anywhere. Takes panoramic photos at 2133x640 resolution Flexible, four-way Multi-Attach base lets you place the webcam at a perfect video capture angle Use the included software for better communication - SightSpeed for video calls & mailing, OrbSecure for remote webcam access from Internet-enabled devices Certified USB 2.0 for perfect broadband delivery Includes headset for clear VoIP Stunning design featuring attractive glowing blue ring System Requirements - Pentium III 700MHz, 256MB RAM, 500MB hard drive space, USB 1.1 or 2.0 port, ISP provider, Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP Software Included - WebCam Center and Photo Manager(Creative); PixAround Panoramic; PhotoImpression, VideoImpression, Multimedia Email, Collage Creator(Arcsoft); SightSpeed; OrbSecure and Yahoo! Messenger
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Creative Webcam Live! Motion- Titanium Reviews
Dragggggg, get with the program Creative Labs. It works great with XP & XP64 but pan & tilt is not supported for Vista Ultimate.
This was an OK product. However, the face tracking did not work as well the other cameras I tested.
If I put this WebCam on the my LCD monitor, the WebCam lens is too high. If I put it on the desk, then the camera lens is too low. However, this product has some terrible design faults. I will not buy this product. The picture quality of this WebCam is good. Unlike other Creative WebCam products, I cannot change the vertical angle of this WebCam. Instead, I will just buy a regular creative WebCam which only costs me $20~$30 while I can adjust both horizontal and vertical angle of the WebCam lens manually.
Creative webcam live motion's performance meets my need for a visual aid of the remote communication. We are just curious about the trend of applications in the consumer market and how far have the consumer-oriented products gone, technology-wise. I experimented with my hand in front of the cam, the little robot eye stared straight at my palm and followed it when I waved my hands. I've owned this webcam for months and very satisfied so far. And I'd like to see a driver for Linux too. This way, the software is not likely to get confused and will track your face well. For such price I didn't expect anything remotely like Nikon DSLRs (hardware-wise), however it turned out that the light metering, shutter speed and aperture of this tiny thing are all quite right, even under some really complex lighting conditions. PS: Creative just released some really flashy software called "advanced video FX" for this camera, freely available from their website.
The panning and tilting works well. It is also a great toy. Creative put these ideas together and created a decent and stylish UI for utilizing this little robot eye, appreciated here. The blue illuminated circles at each side looks modern and elegant. That means we can always hope Creative to release more advanced software or even roll out our own (oops, the driver is closed-source, but there is workaround for this issue if one really wants to hack along.). (I wonder what will this little camera do when it sees an African whose face is nearly RGB(0, 0, 0), can it still track). It suggests a really nice application possibility of this camera.
The visual surveillance feature is cool. The bundled software is quite impressive. I bought this cam for several reasons. It's especially cute when it does track your face's motion and stares straight at you, just like a cat or a little kid. It's really not the hardware's fault but can be improved by employing some not-so-primitive, state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms in the software. I run Debian most of the time recently, don't want to reboot to windows just in order to use this webcam.
Some people complained the face detection didn't work out well for them. As a practical tool it is more than adequate; Both my boyfriend and me had great fun when tweaking, cheating and playing with this little robot eye and we cannot wait to write our own applications for it. And I really hope they would release some SDK so that people can implement better algorithms for applications like remote monitoring, motion tracking.for this webcam. This tells that in the software, the rules defining a "face" is really primitive for now. Though not anything really that innovative, still a nice move.
(I'm a long-time avid photographer) The zooming is digital but not optical, but then again it is really a consumer gadget targeted at mass-market.The video is reasonably smooth. My parents live far away from me, a webcam can be a great tool for our communication; My boyfriend is a hardcore researcher working on automatic video segmentation, feature recognition, etc. Tip for a quick fix is: do not expose any object which has the similar colour and similar shape of your face to the webcam. Not necessarily the most cutting-edge computer vision algorithms are implemented, but it's really nice to see creative get quite a few applications featuring object detection and motion tracking.
Thus 5 stars. This cam looks good and is well built.
It will not install on any of them. I tried to install this on 3 different computers, A Toshiba, a Sony and a voodoo.
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