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Wave 4 Sugestion: Introduce a "web cam app" much like Apple's photo booth

Submitted by .Chris on June 18, 2009 to Usability

Simple. Many people have webcams. most, if not all laptops now adays include a webcam. Why not create software to interact with it, like Apple's Photo Booth, but of course, better

of course its an OPTIONAL download, so you don't want it, don;t download it

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Discussion (6 comments)

Indrek wrote on June 18, 2009, 8:43pm

Not a bad idea, I'd love to be able to quickly snap a photo or record a small clip with my laptop's webcam.

+1

wellslogan wrote on June 30, 2009, 7:24pm

Another great excuse for the fanboys to claim that Microsoft "took out their photo copiers". Besides, most webcam venders provide software with their webcams to do this.

.Chris wrote on June 30, 2009, 9:07pm

Who cares what the dumb fan boys say. they are immature idiots

and plus thats not what the idea is about kid

pikablu0530 wrote on July 26, 2009, 4:38am

Apple's have it because they produce their own hardware, which includes the built-in webcams. If MS is to have such app, it'd have to interact with thousands of different webcams out there (think those Chinese-branded webcams, I have tons at home).

However, if they were ever to make something in Windows Live to integrate with webcams, it'd probably better to have it built-in to Windows Live Movie Maker, perhaps a "Capture from webcam" feature so it imports directly into WLMM, and then you can do tons of different effects to the videos you've captured.

Calum.Cook wrote on August 23, 2009, 1:35pm

Microsoft already have a webcam app that comes with their LifeCam webcams. It includes special effects and things like that.

SomethingElse wrote on June 15, 2010, 7:02pm

They should definitely do what pikablu0530 said! +1

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