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Detail — Upgrade your camera & turn your Mac into a production studio
Detail is a virtual camera that you can use in Zoom, Loom, Twitch, Whereby, or your favorite streaming software. Use your iPhone or iPad as your camera, switch between cameras, pick your favorite filter and record high quality video while streaming live.
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@pveugen Hii! Very curious about this product. Currently I'm using Camo, but that's not very user friendly. I like the simple approach you took and I'm curious to see wether it's easy enough for the non-tech-savvy masses.
That being said, I haven't been able to try it out! On your website, I need to fill in my e-mail address and there's no download link yet. Would be cool to just make that accessible for everyone here on Product Hunt :).
@samuelbeek Thanks Samuel!
We're inviting everyone who signs up today through ProductHunt. You should've received your invite just now. I'll be keeping an eye on the list and will work through the invites as fast as I can.
@simon_barker1 Totally! Even a lot of expensive devices look very bad.
Your phone is an insanely capable device with excellent camera, sensors, and processing power. We want to move video post-production into your live camera feed, our virtual webcam is just the start.
@pveugen : Congrats on the launch! Love this idea - iPhone as a camera source. I use Ecamm live with a external camera but this is so much fun 😎
Awesoem app! Worked with streaming apps but doesn't seem to work with ScreenFlow 🤔
@nicnocquee Ooh, interesting. We haven't tried ScreenFlow yet. Does it show up as a camera or not at all? For most apps, you have to quit and open the app before it recognizes the camera.
@pveugen it showed up as camera, and even the preview works. but after recording, the video didn't show up in the timeline. Screenshot of the preview: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/sh...
Hi there @pveugen. Detail sounds really good. I am currently using Camo, but just wondered if you could let us know what devices/iOS versions Detail will work with.
Update: just received my invite – thank you. I see it requires iOS 13 and macOS 11 with an M1 capable Mac (which I don’t have - yet).
Will you be supporting older hardware at all? Or will these be the minimum specs required going forward?
@craigcpaterson We currently support iOS 13 and up, and Big Sur and up. You don't need an M1 to be able to run the app. If you use your iPhone, we do most of the image processing on your phone, so the system requirements for the Mac are relatively lean.
Look forward to testing! Are there discussions/roadmap of using multiple Detail cameras and being able to switch between if you have multiple iOS cameras?
@tommullen Definitely! We can't wait to use multi-camera. In this version, you can switch between the the Detail iOS camera, built-in webcam, and external connected camera (for example DSLR). You can switch between devices while using the camera output in livestream or video call.
Next, we want to add support to connect with multiple iPhones or iPads, make switching between different angles even more seamless with transitions, and create automatic transitions, and enable camera switching while you're recording.
I love Detail! The beta has been awesome, can't wait to see it grow and evolve 🙌 Congrats @pveugen and team on the launch!
Congrats Paul and the team!🎉 I will test the beta in a few minutes with 10+ people via google meet 🙌
@stijnvvilsteren You'll be the brightest in the room ✨ – Looking forward to your feedback.
Well, I've seen the comments and couldn't find one related to my problem. After uninstalling Detail app from my computer (which didn't work for me for an unknown reason) all of my call apps including Zoom, Meet and Hand Mirror, can't see my webcam, but still see Detail Camera. How is this happening and what should I do to "really" uninstall the app. Thanks.
@fatihguner Hey Fatih, that's weird one. Sorry you're running into issues! It sounds like something prevents Detail to run as camera, and that might block other camera's. Could you try a reboot after removing, and if that doesn't help send me a quick note to support@detail.co so I can help you out with some other tips.
Just tried the app on iPhone XR + MacBook Pro:
- Set-up is instant (it imidiatly recognises devices on the same network and connects)
- Picture quality & speed is great, no delay ( I wonder how it performs on a slower internet though)
- Was able to connect to Zoom with no problem
All in all I love Detail attention to detail 😳 This icon that shows you phone battery when using back camera is such a nice touch!
Also, feature request: be able to add it as a camera to Google Meet as well
@the_andriy_bond Thanks Andrew! Appreciate the feedback.
> Also, feature request: be able to add it as a camera to Google Meet as well
Safari on macOS unfortunately doesn't support virtual camera's. Chrome and Firefox do support the camera.
Quite keen to try it but, for some odd reason, it requires MacOS 11 only (and I keep a couple of home office machines on MacOS 10).
I really can't see why that is needed/required?
@lyondhur Hey Lyondhur. Good point. We decided to launch for macOS Big Sur and up, and iOS 13 and up, to speed up development and limit the number of device combinations we need to support and test with (now and in the future).
Launching an app for both iOS and macOS at the same time, making that work on most local networks, and debugging in different types of external applications, was a big enough hill to climb 😂.
@pveugen actually that makes a lot of sense, cheers. I wonder how distinct the testing profiles would be for MacOS 10 (latest prior BigSur).
Congratulations on the launch.
@ajaffarali Hi Abbas! Yes, you can use all the lenses available on your iPhone, including the front-facing selfie camera.
@bilal_chaglani Thanks Bilal! We use our phone camera for most video calls (hard to beat image quality) but sometimes like the flexibility of using the built-in camera. In Detail, you can switch between camera's without interrupting your Zoom stream. Also useful to capture different angles or when you use a DSLR as camera.
Looks very cool. Will try it out as soon as you support for intel macs! Do you have a timeline for this?
@jgrenzemann Hey Johannes. We distribute our Mac app outside of the App Store and support Intel and M1.
The iOS App Store listing is unfortunately a bit confusing: it is the Detail iOS app that also works on M1, which is not our Mac app. I'm trying to make that more clear on the App Store.
Congrats fam, so excited about this public launch!! Grateful to be a small part of your journey. :)
@barriematt ah, sorry to hear. Are your Mac and Phone both connected to the same WiFi? You could also try connecting your phone to your Mac with a lightning cable. Hope that helps, otherwise please send us a quick note to support @ detail.co and we’ll help you out.
Good busy Paul & Crew! Good to see you are still building and creating new and amazing products! Miss our bike rides, but that was a whole other era and area ;)
@samuel_dirksz1 I'm so thrilled to be able to build something from scratch again ✨ – Hope to make it out to Norway in the near future and will definitely bring my bike.
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