Webcams aren't good enough
I&#x27;m the cofounder at Lumina - we&#x27;re building a modern webcam designed to solve some of these problems.<p>There&#x27;s really been a lack of innovation in the entire home office space, with the webcam being particularly bad. It sucks that a decade-old product (Logitech C920) is still the bestselling product today -- that would be like if Apple stopped releasing new phones after the iPhone 4S (launched 2012), and it remained the bestselling phone through now.<p>A few thoughts to add to the article:<p>- On why webcams aren&#x27;t seeing innovation, I&#x27;d disagree that the market is too small. There&#x27;s enough gross margin to produce a $B company just by selling webcams [0], especially if you can actually get customers excited about the product.<p>- A big reason there hasn&#x27;t been innovation is that the space doesn&#x27;t attract entrepreneurs (because hardware is viewed as hard) or investors (because hardware is viewed as hard).<p>- Size isn&#x27;t everything. As the iPhone shows, you can get very good image quality from a tiny sensor and lens if you have the right tech supporting it. (At Lumina, most of our eng effort is on the software layer)<p>I would&#x27;ve loved to see Lumina in his comparison. We launched a few months ago and are seeing many reviewers prefer us over the Brio (Logitech&#x27;s flaghip) [1]. Personally, I&#x27;d guess we&#x27;re 60% of where we can be in terms of quality and think we can achieve a quality level between an iPhone and a DSLR, hopefully closer to the latter.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s1.q4cdn.com&#x2F;104539020&#x2F;files&#x2F;doc_financials&#x2F;2022&#x2F;q4&#x2F;Logitech-full-year-Q4-FY22-press-release-FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s1.q4cdn.com&#x2F;104539020&#x2F;files&#x2F;doc_financials&#x2F;2022&#x2F;q4&#x2F;...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowscentral.com&#x2F;lumina-ai-webcam-review" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowscentral.com&#x2F;lumina-ai-webcam-review</a>