Creative Webcam Live! Motion- Titanium | 
| Brand: Creative Labs
List Price: $123.99
Buy New: $108.99
You Save: $15.00 (12%)
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 14500
Color: Titanium
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 4 x 7
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 73VF015000000
Model: 73VF015000000
UPC: 054651115927
EAN: 0054651115927
ASIN: B000A3IAKY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Face-tracking Web Camera | | • | Unique tracking abilities | | • | Incredible value | | • | Capable of both pan and tilt motion | | • | One year warranty |
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Product Description
With the Creative WebCam Live! Motion, you'll get ultra-wide, panoramic shots you can broadcast easily, through high-quality video. Use the smooth pan & tilt motion to get a wider view, which you can share with vivid, real-life color and smooth 30-frame per second display. It also features Smart face-tracking to follow your motions, automatic panorama creation and a multi-attach base for positioning anywhere. Takes panoramic photos at 2133x640 resolution Flexible, four-way Multi-Attach base lets you place the webcam at a perfect video capture angle Use the included software for better communication - SightSpeed for video calls & mailing, OrbSecure for remote webcam access from Internet-enabled devices Certified USB 2.0 for perfect broadband delivery Includes headset for clear VoIP Stunning design featuring attractive glowing blue ring System Requirements - Pentium III 700MHz, 256MB RAM, 500MB hard drive space, USB 1.1 or 2.0 port, ISP provider, Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP Software Included - WebCam Center and Photo Manager(Creative); PixAround Panoramic; PhotoImpression, VideoImpression, Multimedia Email, Collage Creator(Arcsoft); SightSpeed; OrbSecure and Yahoo! Messenger
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
Excellent image and features, buggy software and headset. November 18, 2005
Bill (Key Largo)
47 out of 47 found this review helpful
This is my first webcam. My wife and sister wanted to communicate. Overall, I wouldn't buy this again given what I know now.
The camera's image quality and features are excellent, but the software is buggy and the cheap little headset (that clips to your ear) is a joke. It broke after 10 minutes.
We then hooked up a little walkman mic while waiting for a new USB mic to arrive ($30 more) and began playing with the face tracking. It was good for a laugh. Maybe in the right environment it would be useful, but it would get confused by our ceiling fan, our TV a bright photo on the wall or just get stuck on a bright corner on the ceiling. It's not useful for us.
The failure of face tracking would be acceptable if the camera didn't repeatedly freeze. Most of the time just unplugging and plugging it back in and restarting the software would fix it, but sometimes a reboot is required. It has probably froze 50 times in the month we've had it. And all that gets old when working with other webcam newbies across country with kids on both ends and little technical experience on their side.
Setting up audio was no piece of cake either, with or without the broken headset. There are 3-4 places that sound is controlled on a PC, and the installation instructions, software help and Creative online help have absolutely zero to say about it. I had to do lots of digging through google for several hours to learn it.
We use the recommended service of SightSpeed. It's good for leaving video mails of nice quality, but very marginal live video quality. After a half dozen chats with my wife's relatives, we still haven't got both or our voices to transmit at the same time without breaking up. Maybe her computer is slow, I should check, but it's really not the kind of thing you want to work with your mother on for a holiday gift and expect to go smoothly.
After all this, I'm glad to have it and sure some of the remaining issues will be resolved, but I would not do it all over again. Life is short. I'd either buy a nice medium priced webcam or wait for the next version to come out.
It's OK--probably wouldn't buy again. . . .. January 9, 2006
Dr. AJ (Detroit, MI)
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
I feel similar to the gentleman above. I am separated from my wife and 2 year old son due to work. I bought us each a camera. Mine is a fixed Logitech, and I brought the new Titanium home with me at Christmas for her. Well, I tried it on our 2.2GHz Pentium 4 laptop and was shocked at lack of video quality. So I bought her a brand new dual core 3.0 GHz pentium with 2 gig of ram (my computer here is a 2.8 P4 with 1.0 gig of ram). Anyhow, the network conditions seem to be the deciding factor. Both computers are through cable modem, so they are fast. The whole process is at best, disappointing. We tried going through Yahoo--much worse than Sight Speed. I would even be willing to pay for Sight Speed if they guaranteed better video quality. It freezes alot, the audio seems to lag. If you want to leave video messages, then no problem. As far as actual video conferencing, we end up talking on our cell phones (my wife on speaker so my son can hear) and just using the video. Would I attempt to set up video conferencing again? Not until there is an improvement in data transfer. This review isn't so much about the camera as it is video conferencing. If I had a read a review that would have said, "In my opinion, I would wait for technology to advance before wasting the money," I may have reconsidered. I just wanted my son to see me everyday and tell him goodnight. The camera isn't any better than the $80 logitech, but it wasn't worth the time or money to send this one back to save $20.
 An excellent tool/toy November 20, 2006
Ning Zhao (Hildesheim, Germany)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've owned this webcam for months and very satisfied so far. For such price I didn't expect anything remotely like Nikon DSLRs (hardware-wise), however it turned out that the light metering, shutter speed and aperture of this tiny thing are all quite right, even under some really complex lighting conditions. (I'm a long-time avid photographer) The zooming is digital but not optical, but then again it is really a consumer gadget targeted at mass-market.The video is reasonably smooth. The panning and tilting works well. The bundled software is quite impressive. Not necessarily the most cutting-edge computer vision algorithms are implemented, but it's really nice to see creative get quite a few applications featuring object detection and motion tracking. Some people complained the face detection didn't work out well for them. It's really not the hardware's fault but can be improved by employing some not-so-primitive, state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms in the software. That means we can always hope Creative to release more advanced software or even roll out our own (oops, the driver is closed-source, but there is workaround for this issue if one really wants to hack along...). Tip for a quick fix is: do not expose any object which has the similar colour and similar shape of your face to the webcam. This way, the software is not likely to get confused and will track your face well. I experimented with my hand in front of the cam, the little robot eye stared straight at my palm and followed it when I waved my hands. This tells that in the software, the rules defining a "face" is really primitive for now. (I wonder what will this little camera do when it sees an African whose face is nearly RGB(0, 0, 0), can it still track?) And I'd like to see a driver for Linux too. I run Debian most of the time recently, don't want to reboot to windows just in order to use this webcam.
The visual surveillance feature is cool. It suggests a really nice application possibility of this camera. Creative put these ideas together and created a decent and stylish UI for utilizing this little robot eye, appreciated here.
This cam looks good and is well built. It's especially cute when it does track your face's motion and stares straight at you, just like a cat or a little kid. The blue illuminated circles at each side looks modern and elegant.
I bought this cam for several reasons. My parents live far away from me, a webcam can be a great tool for our communication; My boyfriend is a hardcore researcher working on automatic video segmentation, feature recognition, etc. We are just curious about the trend of applications in the consumer market and how far have the consumer-oriented products gone, technology-wise. Creative webcam live motion's performance meets my need for a visual aid of the remote communication. As a practical tool it is more than adequate; Both my boyfriend and me had great fun when tweaking, cheating and playing with this little robot eye and we cannot wait to write our own applications for it. It is also a great toy. Thus 5 stars.
PS: Creative just released some really flashy software called "advanced video FX" for this camera, freely available from their website. Though not anything really that innovative, still a nice move. And I really hope they would release some SDK so that people can implement better algorithms for applications like remote monitoring, motion tracking...for this webcam.
 Doesn't work with AIM May 21, 2006
Bernie (Richardson, TX USA)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
The camera works fine with Yahoo Instant Messenger, and with the software that Creative includes with the product. But we got the camera to use it with AIM which is what the rest of our distributed family uses. Alas, neither AIM 5.9 nor AIM Triton displays anything from the the camera. Creative's support has been frustrating. They have suggested a number of things to do if the camera doesn't work at all, ignoring the fact that I've told them where the camera does work, and that we get the same results on two very different computers.
The problem may be with AIM, but then Creative's website and tech support should just say that, instead of encouraging users to think that it does work. I've found several entries on the web indicating others having the same problem.
 Very Expensive and it is not worth to buy!! July 25, 2006
Marietta Cunningham (Anchorage, AK, USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am not satisfied with this Creative Webcam Live! Motion- Titanium. I bought this even of the higher cost because I thought it should be the best. However,the authomatic sensor is junk and the headphone is broken. The tracking device is not very good because each time I moved the captured picture would blur and freeze. The pant and tilt control is a pain. Although it works well with Yahoo messenger, as a buyer, you should consider spending time reading other reviews of a procuct that you are interested. Higher price does not mean good product.
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