What would be the benefit in a camera facing away from the user?
It would be unused in 99% of use cases and the other 1% a external camera is more functional.
walking around with the laptop showing people stuff, would be EXTREMELY useful to me
Why would you be sitting behind the screen? If you need to film a conversation between two people with one webcam…have the webcam face their profiles
To answer your question directly- because it wouldn’t serve a need that users typically have.
have you never been in a workshop and wanted to show someone what you’re working on? it would be awesome to just be able to flip the camera and walk over
I wouldn’t suggest that there is no use for this kind of camera. Yours is a good example. But for the cost and risk of damage, that is not something that most would want by default in a laptop.
Also I have a phone with a camera for that purpose
on the streets
“Hey, can you take a picture of this?”
“Brb, unpacking my backpack to get out my laptop”
🤣
Why? No one ever needed this.
i would use it
Creeper no creeping
what?
In my case, it’s because people don’t like all my pictures of the wall behind my computer screen.
My surface pro from work has this, though I can’t say I’ve ever used it in all these years.
Damn, some commenters are just being rude. It’s not a ridiculous question and this is the community for it, even if it was, isn’t it? It’s no real stretch of the imagination to wonder why if phones have great cameras and tablets have good cameras, why don’t laptops offer anything close? I agree, the bulk of the laptop makes it awkward and the demand is low when “everyone” in the primary markets already have a camera phone in their pocket
Ive had a laptop that had this. You coud turn the webcam part around.
That camera would be facing the wall. It’s about 6 inches from the back of the monitor to the wall. Also I do not want a camera built into my monitor. Just another thing to break. If I need a web cam I’ll go to my closet and get the camera and plug it into the pc usb port.
It’s just not as useful as the rear-facing camera on a phone or tablet. You can’t aim it easily, so it’s stuck pointing slightly downward at the surface it’s sitting on, unless you’re interested in making your screen harder to see.
Plus it’s more expensive for a feature that few people would find useful.
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Imagine the abuse girls would further have. Girls are LANning while boys are Stanning…
i don’t see how a laptop would be used for that, phones are an issue but a big laptop pointing directly at you is pretty obvious
You’d be surprised what an erection makes people do.
