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I am using my 3 year old phone for this and the camera quality is still better than the laptop webcam bought last year",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"24132815","tito","I've tried EpocCam Pro [1] which is good at the basics. The biggest challenge with these \"phone as webcam\" setups is getting a good mounting system. A tripod is hard to get in…",{"value":102,"source":91,"evidence":103},"Head bubble and background hiding are useful",[104],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"24132286","guessbest","Many people don't have a room in their house or apartment that they can dedicate to creating a home office, especially people with kids, and have to use a shared room. 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So my takeaway is that today the pitch for the recurring is that you'll continue to add new styles, and users can pay a monthly to access those as…",{"value":120,"source":91,"evidence":121},"Mac install and Zoom setup problems",[122,125],{"id":123,"by":114,"text":124},"24130925","This looks awesome - unfortunately, my 2017 MBP running the latest MacOS 10.15 and iPhone 11 don't seem to register with this software when plugged in after installing the app…",{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},{"value":127,"source":91,"evidence":128},"Ads in the app",[129],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"24131907","xutopia","I tried the software but was so put off by the ads in the app and the inability to really try the app out before paying. I they had a 10 day full trial I would be in a better…",{"value":134,"source":91,"evidence":135},"Lag with microphone and no Linux support",[136,140],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"24131959","jimmies","Nice work! I have been researching and working on this webcam quality problem for a while. I have tried a couple of webcam-over-phone solutions and while they solved the image…",{"id":141,"by":11,"text":142},"24132236","thanks, jimmies! we do not have a dedicated microphone feature at the moment, and we did encounter a small amount of lag, but it varies based on device model. we hope it won't be…",[144,148,155],{"value":145,"source":91,"evidence":146},"Windows support",[147],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},{"value":149,"source":91,"evidence":150},"Android support",[151],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"24131895","rexreed","Dare I ask about Android support?",{"value":156,"source":91,"evidence":157},"Restart setup option",[158],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"24131590","juliann","Looks good OP, just a suggestion, I opened the app and continued through (clicked continue to live feed) without airdropping the driver or clicking the link. 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