Once you open the package, what you find inside is the sphere itself with a base and a docking pole which is 9 inches tall. You can also detach the camera from the docking pole and fix it directly on to the base.
The camera is USB 2.0 compatible, which means you need simply plug it There are two ways you can place the Logitech Quickcam Sphere-on top of the I 9-inch-long docking pole (shown at top) or directly on the base as shown above into your PC’s USB 2.0 port and start using it-goes without saying, of course, that the camera is of no use to you if your PC doesn’t provide a USB 2.0 port.
The Quickcam Sphere can capture images at a good 1280×960 resolution. In addition, it allows 3x digital zoom. Motion capture for video conferencing takes place at a resolution of 640×480.
Usage and image quality The image quality of the webcam is impressive. Even video image quality at 640×480 resolution is quite crisp. However, you must bear in mind that while holding a video conference through an instant messaging client such as MSN or Yahoo Messenger, your frame rate smoothness will depend on the connection.
Face-tracking is a cool sounding feature of this webcam. You can enable this feature through the drivers-it enables the camera to move 128 degrees side to side and 54 degrees top-down so it can track your face as you move your head while sitting in front of your Pc. While this sounds really cool, there is a catch.
It tracks your face for sure, but if you move your hand while conferencing or if someone passes behind you, the camera shifts focus to that object-this can be quite irritating at times. But what we found more irritating is the fact that whenever the system is rebooted, the camera reorients its position to the center rather than remembering its old position.