Webcams aren't good enough
I'm the cofounder at Lumina - we're building a modern webcam designed to solve some of these problems.<p>There'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't seeing innovation, I'd disagree that the market is too small. There'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't been innovation is that the space doesn't attract entrepreneurs (because hardware is viewed as hard) or investors (because hardware is viewed as hard).<p>- Size isn'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'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's flaghip) [1]. Personally, I'd guess we'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://s1.q4cdn.com/104539020/files/doc_financials/2022/q4/Logitech-full-year-Q4-FY22-press-release-FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://s1.q4cdn.com/104539020/files/doc_financials/2022/q4/...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/lumina-ai-webcam-review" rel="nofollow">https://www.windowscentral.com/lumina-ai-webcam-review</a>