

Now Apple has its own take, called Continuity Camera (see “ Ten “It’s About Time” Features from WWDC 2022,” 6 June 2022). Similarly, Reincubate provides the ingenious Camo virtual-camera system (see “ Turn Your iPhone into a Powerful Webcam with Camo,” 24 July 2020), but the product’s complexity and cost-beyond a basic free tier-will scare some Mac users away. Elgato offers Epoccam software to pull this off. It’s unclear if Apple plans to improve webcam specs in future models, but there’s an alternative that works now-repurposing the iPhone’s optically superb cameras as a Mac webcam. The same goes for Apple’s Studio Display external monitor, which has its own built-in camera.
MACOS VENTURA CONTINUITY CAMERA 720P
Apple has finally bumped the webcams in the latest Mac models from the laughably old 720p resolution to 1080p, but they still yield disappointing image quality. This is partly due to the historically subpar quality of computer webcams like the FaceTime HD cameras built into Macs (see “ The 2020 MacBook Air’s FaceTime HD Camera Is Still Lousy,” 8 April 2020, and “ Why Are Webcams So Lousy?,” 25 January 2021).

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