{"id":851,"date":"2006-05-11T13:36:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T18:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/11\/logitech-quickcam-orbit-mp\/"},"modified":"2006-05-11T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T18:38:57","slug":"logitech-quickcam-orbit-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/11\/logitech-quickcam-orbit-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP webcam\" id=\"image852\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 25px\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/logitech-quickcam-orbit-mp.gif\" \/>In an effort to join other family members in their recent discovery of <a href=\"http:\/\/skype.com\/\">Skype<\/a>&#8216;s free video-conferencing features, I purchased a Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP webcam (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/site\/olspage.jsp?skuId=7333138&#038;type=product&#038;id=1118845304938\">$129 &#8211; Best Buy<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely more expensive than the average $40 webcam that most will use, but I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/r7Gn2TyEyHw\">video demonstration<\/a> of the face-tracking features being used to amusing effect.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had cheap $30 webcams before and their poor video quality and small angle of view annoyed me enough that the Orbit MP&#8217;s 1.3 megapixel, 30 fps video capture ability interested me greatly.  The face-tracking feature is also nice for someone like myself who tends to move around often during a conversation.  The camera&#8217;s software recognizes facial features and will rotate the camera through a full 189\u00c2\u00b0 horizontal arc and 102\u00c2\u00b0 vertically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to join other family members in their recent discovery of Skype&#8216;s free video-conferencing features, I purchased a Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP webcam ($129 &#8211; Best Buy). It&#8217;s definitely more expensive than the average $40 webcam that most will use, but I came across a video demonstration of the face-tracking features being used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/11\/logitech-quickcam-orbit-mp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}