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by abda0180 2141 days ago
Wow. Looks interesting. I'm curious, why don't you use the built-in Macbook webcam? - does Apple limit its use?
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The Macbooks webcam is a lot lower in quality when compared to even older iPhones, so the image quality would be really low. Also, Macbooks do not have a Neural Engine at the moment, so running advanced machine learning algorithms in real-time is not really an option, when compared with the low quality webcam. The iPhones & iPads, though, have both a Neural Engine and a very high quality camera, and we're making full use of them with our solution.