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Re:Show HN: NeuralCam Live – Using ML to Turn iPhones into S... by abda0180 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:15AM (#24131243)
Wow. Looks interesting. I'm curious, why don't you use the built-in Macbook webcam? - does Apple limit its use?
Re:Show HN: NeuralCam Live – Using ML to Turn iPhones into S... by soonpls on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:23AM (#24131299)
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.