- Oh!
Hey, this is a really big box for a webcam.
What's the deal, why's it so big?
- [Jono] There's so many!
- You thought...
Is this a prank?
You told me to unbox a webcam,
but really it's gonna be
- [Jono] A snake.
- A huge camera.
Oh, okay but still.
Wait, so this is a smaller box
but it's still a pretty big box.
- [Jono] Yeah.
- Is that how long it is?
The NexiGo 970P
webcam?
That's a long boy.
Okay, so we got the NexiGo 970P
AI-powered
4K EPTZ
conference camera.
What is EPTZ?
What is that?
- [Jono] No idea.
- Zoom certified.
You are allowed to use this with Zoom,
you heard it here first.
So NexiGo sponsored this video but we kind of wanted
to take a look at this one anyways
because it's got the same sensor
as that fancy Dell UltraSharp camera
that Alex looked at many, many moons ago.
It's a Sony 1/2.8
inch
sensor,
which Alex said translates to some other,
you can translate that into a more sensible camera size,
I think it's like five point something.
Bigger is better according to Andy
so that's what we're gonna go with.
What else, what other kind of features
are they advertising on the box?
Ultra HD 4K, which is good in a modern webcam,
AI auto-framing which we're seeing
in a few different models these days.
Apple has their own thing from... Center Stage?
- [Jono] Yeah.
- I almost said front stage, camera...
Stage front, I'll see you there.
(laughs awkwardly)
Oh, it's not EPTZ, it's E-P-T-Z.
We need to find out what that is.
What is EPTZ?
PTZ stands for pan, tilt and zoom.
You have some cameras that can do that
like mechanically where the camera is actually moving
but EPTZ means it's doing it electronically
so it's kind of like, you know,
that's how they do the auto AI framing thing.
Let's open it up.
(touches box, imitates opening it)
All right, let's take a look at this.
Ooh, very smooth, very smooth unboxing experience.
It comes with a thick, that's a thick boy.
That's a thick USB cable.
(plastic moving)
(finger hitting plastic)
Ahh
Oh yeah, ten, so there's a 9.84 feet
or three meter
black USB 3.0 cable
and here we have some sort of mounting
doo-hickey
that I will figure out how to use in a second.
- [Jono] It's a privacy screen.
- Is that what that is? - [Jono] Yeah.
- That's spoilers.
Ah, here's the remote.
(opening plastic)
So,
I
Ya know
I don't think I've ever seen a webcam
with a dedicated remote
and especially one this big before.
Does not come with batteries
and the webcam itself.
Wow, like man, I was, we were not kidding
when we said this is a long boy.
Look at that.
That is... (laughs) that's so wide.
Okay, I like the mounting mechanism.
It's similar to some other webcam mounting solutions
that I've seen, although there's no turning.
Can't swivel, unless I'm just tripping.
Yeah, we do not have swivel on there so that's too bad.
Yeah, so we got the big main lens there
to house that big old Sony sensor we were talking about
and I'm guessing these are mics on the either side here.
Let's plug this sucker in and see how she goes
after I verify whether Jono was telling the truth
about the privacy screen.
Ah, I see.
So you can just flip it up like that.
You see that, Andy?
No one can see me.
It's so big, look at this.
I can gesture with it.
I can gesture at someone.
Over there, you're gonna wanna,
yeah check it out over there,
there's some other worse webcams in that general direction.
But over here, this is what you want.
The big, the thick boy, get yourself a thick webcam.
I'm gonna keep talking about this.
This is no joke.
This isn't for like...
- [Jono] This aint for babies.
- Is this for streaming, you think?
Or is it for...
- [Jono] You could probably use it for streaming.
- Are we streaming or are we dancing?
You don't recognize that?
- [Jono] No. (laughs)
- The Killers?
The editor will definitely know what I'm talking about.
Okay, I mean, not a bad image, right outta the box,
looking pretty sharp.
Can you see my pores with the 4K?
A little bit.
That's good.
I want people to see, I'm not perfect, okay?
We're a little warm for my taste,
but in terms of the sharpness that we're seeing here,
I like it, there's some detail.
You can see the little imperfections in the warehouse wall.
Let's see if I can warm it up a little bit
with the
NexiGo
panel here.
White balance.
Let's turn that off auto.
Mm.
I'm very sad.
Yeah, I mean the auto looked fine.
I mean, I think I'd be fine using this
for a conference call or something,
it's not like horribly off putting.
So NexiGo has actually made this a little simpler
for the average person who's not gonna be able
to plug this in and then know to go download
the proper software or something.
You just got this remote
and this is how you enable the AI feature,
is that what you're saying?
Is that what you're telling me, Jono?
- Yep, press the top right button.
- Top... what, this?
- [Jono] Yeah, yeah.
- Oh.
So it is showing up, it's showing up on the webcam feed.
If you're having a meeting and you wanted to use
the the menu in the middle of the meeting,
they would see what you're doing there
with the going between the different options.
This is interesting, I've never seen this before.
Maybe there are webcams out there that use this
but this is new to me.
So you have a remote, it brings up an OSD
like you're using a TV or a monitor or something
and I guess I'm gonna go to setup.
Auto framing, image style, what?
Oh, normal.
Clarity.
Bright.
Soft.
- Default.
Okay, well, auto framing.
Let's see how this baby does following me around the room.
Oh, close... wait, it's already on?
Open.
Okay, so open means it's kind of keeping
a pretty wide frame still but it will follow you.
Oh, let's go to two sensitivity.
I was on zero, I think.
Take that apple, although we're not really zooming in.
Oh, it did zoom in a little bit.
Welcome to my seminar! (laughs)
- [Jono] Ay!
- I'm so glad you came to my online seminar
but I have something to show you over there.
(feet stepping/walking)
We are destined for greatness.
(all laugh)
That was pretty good.
Hello. (laughs)
When auto framing's set to close,
that appears to not do anything, but when you go to open
then that's when we get the movement going on.
This is my chair.
Exposure, okay, so now these are different options
than we saw in the NexiGo software.
Maybe this is, okay, we'll see here.
Mode, manual, SAE.
What's EV?
On.
They give you a free electric vehicle.
Increasing that is just making me look more
like I live in a volcano.
DRC looks like it's raising shadows.
- [Jono] Dynamic range.
- Dynamic range, oh okay.
We want maximum dynamic range, baby.
Again, what does again mean?
Andy, help me.
Okay, so the prevailing theory here is that again
just means gain and they just had a little bit of a mix up.
I think my takeaway from this menu thing
is that this is pretty cool for people who
would not be as technically literate as
PC gamers
such as you and I.
but they can use a little bit
of a polish in the menu system, for sure.
It's a little bit confusing to go through.
However what I have discovered, is that there's a lot
of
depth to these options.
You can really dig in there
and cycle between all sorts of different modes
and settings options that you can really
make your webcam look the way you want it to look,
more or less, within the physical restraints of reality.
But there's a lot of options there so that's good
and yeah, you can save it as a preset
so what I've done, I just saved the preset as it is
on preset number one, if you hold button number one,
that's what you can do, you can save it as a preset.
However, it seems like that doesn't really work
with the different color settings and stuff
but it does work with framing.
So if I press the zoom button, can you see that Andy?
There's a zoom button on the remote
and I can just zoom right in on myself.
Wait no, not over there.
- [Andy] Hi Riley!
- Wait, I can see- - [Andy] Why are you up there?
- I can save it.
Mm.
This is what I like.
And those presets are saved to the camera
so you can take the camera with you to whatever you're going
and have your framing presets already set, so that's nice.
This is the audio from the NexiGo webcam.
Tell me what you think,
I don't know what it sounds like yet.
Hey, can you hear me when I'm over here, NexiGo webcam?
Apparently there's an audio range of 20 feet
and I'm only like, what is this?
10, 15, 12?
- Apple thinks they're so cool.
Apple thinks they're so smart with the Center Stage,
ooh, look at us.
We got you covered.
We just make a foot long webcam
and it can do everything you can do.
This is the 720P webcam built into this laptop
and right away you can tell a massive difference.
Let's go back to the NexiGo.
I mean, it's night and day.
I think there are still, you know, some color profiles,
some color settings that I would change with this setup,
but just from fiddling with it for a few minutes,
being able to get it to this level of quality.
Whoa,
whoa.
(laughs) Look at the shadows around my hands.
That's probably the result of me affecting
some sort of black level setting.
I changed, I touched something.
That's a massive difference between the 720P 30 FPS,
on this one,
it's 4K.
I think it is actually set to 30 FBS right now.
Woo, jiggly jiggly jello-wello. (laughs)
Okay, I just changed the shutter speed to 120
to account for the 60 FPS that it's recording at
So this already looks a lot better, so.
Well at the end of the day, this is a sharp image.
I mean, it's a lot better than a lot of other webcams
you can find on the market that are
kind of overpriced but this is,
especially with the amount of customization you can do.
Thanks for sponsoring this video, NexiGo
and if you guys are interested in this webcam
you can check it out at the link below
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Stop doing... Surprise!
(Jono yells)
I hate this channel.