Creative Webcam Live! Motion- Titanium | 
 enlarge | Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
Buy New: $54.99
New (3) from $54.99
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 17626
Color: Titanium
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 4 x 7
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 73VF015000000
Model: 73VF015000000
UPC: 054651115927
EAN: 0054651115927
ASIN: B000A3IAKY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Face-tracking Web Camera | | • | Unique tracking abilities | | • | Incredible value | | • | Capable of both pan and tilt motion | | • | One year warranty |
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 OK July 21, 2007
S. Loveland
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was an OK product. However, the face tracking did not work as well the other cameras I tested.
The design of this Webcam has a terrible fault. December 17, 2006
L. Yang (Tempe, AZ USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The picture quality of this WebCam is good. However, this product has some terrible design faults. Unlike other Creative WebCam products, I cannot change the vertical angle of this WebCam. 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. I will not buy this product. 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.
 An excellent tool/toy November 20, 2006
Ning Zhao (Hildesheim, Germany)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've owned this webcam for months and very satisfied so far. 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. (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. The panning and tilting works well. The bundled software is quite impressive. 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. Some people complained the face detection didn't work out well for them. 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. 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...). 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. This way, the software is not likely to get confused and will track your face well. 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. This tells that in the software, the rules defining a "face" is really primitive for now. (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?) And I'd like to see a driver for Linux too. I run Debian most of the time recently, don't want to reboot to windows just in order to use this webcam.
The visual surveillance feature is cool. It suggests a really nice application possibility of this camera. Creative put these ideas together and created a decent and stylish UI for utilizing this little robot eye, appreciated here.
This cam looks good and is well built. 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. The blue illuminated circles at each side looks modern and elegant.
I bought this cam for several reasons. 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. We are just curious about the trend of applications in the consumer market and how far have the consumer-oriented products gone, technology-wise. Creative webcam live motion's performance meets my need for a visual aid of the remote communication. 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. It is also a great toy. Thus 5 stars.
PS: Creative just released some really flashy software called "advanced video FX" for this camera, freely available from their website. Though not anything really that innovative, still a nice move. 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.
Will not install October 20, 2006
J. F. Jacobs (michigan)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I tried to install this on 3 different computers, A Toshiba, a Sony and a voodoo. It will not install on any of them.
 poor camera. very poor software August 10, 2006
Ganesh Kumar Eswaran (Lansdale, PA, USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
The webcam is just like any other ordinary Logitech webcam. Nothing new or great about it. The description given by the manufacturer seems to claim that this is the best webcam in the world. Don't believe any word from the manufacturer. If you already have a webcam, don't re-invest in this.
The "face-recognizing" software is a joke. It takes any bright light ahead of the webcam as a "face". If two or more people stand in front of the camera, it goes crazy trying to figure out what to do and does what it can do best... hang or freeze. I had to close the software and restart it 7 times in an hour. I returned the webcam after using it for 2 days.
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