This new Logitech webcam on a stick is a streamers dream

Logitech has formally launched the Logitech Attain, a brand new sort of webcam designed expressly for making it straightforward to supply a spread of views of you and the world round you. With its flip-up, sliding horizontal arm, it may well present an overhead view of your desk or you possibly can twist and switch the digicam to face any course wanted.

Initially launched as an Indigogo marketing campaign final 12 months, over 2,100 folks backed the marketing campaign to the tune of $607,780. Because of this, Logitech has now formally stated it’ll put the product into manufacturing. We acquired hands-on with the intriguing new best webcam contender at CES 2024, to see what the enjoyable/fuss is all about.

The important thing to the Attain is that it makes use of a desktop-mounted arm, a bit such as you’ll discover used for a lot of higher-end gaming microphones. Nevertheless, as a substitute of bending like these arms, the Attain maintains a hard and fast upright place, solely rotating in its base till you press the massive silver lozenge-shaped button at its prime. Press this and you’ll flip out a complete different arm at 90° to the principle upright. Press the button once more and you’ll slide this arm up or down or slide the digicam ahead and again.

The tip result’s the flexibility to in a short time and easily swap between presenting your self to digicam or presenting what’s in your desk or throughout you. On the tip of the second arm, the webcam can simply spin so as to preserve your framing and it may well tilt too.

One thing comparable may very well be achieved with a standard articulated arm however the Attain makes it simpler to extra easily transition throughout its mounted horizontal and vertical arms. It’s additionally a way more compact arm association total.

The webcam itself is simply Logitech’s personal Streamcam however presently, Logitech isn’t ofrfeing the Attain as a standalone improve for present Streamcam house owners, which looks like a little bit of a missed alternative to us. The digicam provides 1080p video recording/streaming, information audio (not like the Corsair Facecam, as an illustration), and makes use of a USB-C connection.

Our first impressions of the system had been largely optimistic with the arm system hanging an excellent stability of compactness with vary of movement. As talked about above, standard spring or gas-dampened articulated arms are fairly cumbersome however the Attain packs up very small – it can be mounted on a weighted desktop mount (in addition to a desktop clamp mount), which most articulated arms can’t.

We did observe two instant potential points, although. The primary is that the digicam can’t attain any greater than the peak of the principle vertical a part of the arm. In bendable arms, they’ll stretch upwards however right here the mounted right-angle design means you solely rise up to 60cm of peak above your desk at most – my Rode microphone arm reaches to 80cm.

The opposite challenge is the webcam high quality. It’s wonderful as a 1080p webcam however for anybody trying to step as much as utilizing this setup as a straightforward overhead digicam for importing to YouTube, the standard isn’t a patch on some higher-end 4K webcams or devoted digicam rigs.

That latter level is a little bit of a sticking level when you think about the pricing of the Attain. The Logitech Attain value is ready to be $349.99 when its launch date arrives this summer time. The Streamcam alone is $139.99 and most competing 1080p webcams are an analogous value however that’s nonetheless quite a bit for the arm. Nonetheless, we’ll reserve full judgment till we get one in for a full in-depth evaluation.

For now, although, we need to know what you make of the Logitech Attain. Does it seem to be the best match to your workflow or would you require one thing extra akin to knowledgeable overhead digicam setup? Tell us your ideas on the PCGamesN Facebook and X pages.