BokehCamera
Creative
webcam background blur
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
4 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks great and the blur effect is a good result
From 2 comments
Looks great, but my video conferencing setup is on Mac. If there is something similar for MacOS?
vzaliva on HNNice! If you are not on a budget, you can use a mirrorless camera with a big aperture (say f1.6), wide angle lens as a "webcam" by connecting the HDMI out of the camera to the…
black_knight on HN
Objections
Bokeh is just depth-of-field blur unless highlights form aperture shapes
From 1 comment
You're going to have photographers arguing that this is merely depth of field, and for it to be called bokeh you need light sources/reflections to bloom in the shape of the…
teawrecks on HN
Blur may look uniform across the background compared with a real lens
From 1 comment
I have a Sony rx100 that I do this with, which is just a point-in-shoot. It has excellent picture quality and bokeh. It looks much better than this.. the blur is the same…
azinman2 on HN
RealSense is being wound down by Intel
From 2 comments
seems like RealSense is winding down? https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/intel-says-it-s-winding-down-realsense-camera-business
itake on HNYes, although it's not as bad as it initially seemed; the stereo product lines will be continued.…
tim-fan on HN
Requests
Support for macOS
From 1 comment
Looks great, but my video conferencing setup is on Mac. If there is something similar for MacOS?
vzaliva on HN
Other stereo cameras besides RealSense
From 1 comment
Are there any readily available stereo cameras besides RealSense? Turning this into a product for video conferencing would be a huge hit, been thinking of it for a while.
ricardobeat on HN
Aperture-shaped bokeh highlights
From 1 comment
You're going to have photographers arguing that this is merely depth of field, and for it to be called bokeh you need light sources/reflections to bloom in the shape of the…
teawrecks on HN
Questions
Are there other stereo cameras that do on-board processing?
From 1 comment
OP here! Here are a few: - Structure Core: https://structure.io/structure-core Closest to RealSense in functionality that I've tried so far, but pricier. Software is in a private…
dheera on HN
Alternatives named
Mirrorless or DSLR camera connected as webcam via HDMI capture or USB
From 3 comments
Nice! If you are not on a budget, you can use a mirrorless camera with a big aperture (say f1.6), wide angle lens as a "webcam" by connecting the HDMI out of the camera to the…
black_knight on HNYep this is a neat trick too. Also I must say (as a hobbyist photographer myself) that even if you're on a budget, if you want to go the optical route, you can easily grab a…
dheera on HNI have a Sony rx100 that I do this with, which is just a point-in-shoot. It has excellent picture quality and bokeh. It looks much better than this.. the blur is the same…
azinman2 on HN
Canon and Sony webcam utilities
From 2 comments
You don't need to do either. Canon offers a webcam utility driver for free, which offers a clean interface via microusb->usb.
lifeofpi331144 on HNYou probably don't even need to shell out for an elgato camlink. Most halfway modern canon cameras are supported by their webcam tool (iirc they expanded support to a lot of…
Version467 on HN
Structure Core, Mynt Eye and ZED stereo cameras
From 1 comment
OP here! Here are a few: - Structure Core: https://structure.io/structure-core Closest to RealSense in functionality that I've tried so far, but pricier. Software is in a private…
dheera on HN