Sony Bravia Cam lets you gesture-control and video chat from your new TV

(Pocket-lint) - Sony is astatine CES 2022 successful Las Vegas unveiling the accustomed refreshes to its assorted merchandise lineups. But, this year, it has thing caller up its sleeve: the Bravia Cam. It's a video camera that volition travel bundled with its top-end TVs, specified arsenic the caller QD-LED A95K. It'll besides beryllium sold separately.

So, what's the intent of having a video camera for your TV? To marque video calls, of course. Built for the pandemic age, the Bravia Cam volition let you to enactment successful meetings rather virtually from the comfortableness of your couch. If that's of small involvement to you, past possibly you mightiness bask 1 of the Bravia Cam's galore different tricks. For instance, it volition let you to power 2022 Sony TVs with gestures.

Turn disconnected your TV, intermission your movie, crook up the measurement each by closing your archetypal oregon waving your manus astir the room. Very Kinect-like, right?

Also, erstwhile your Bravia Cam is plugged in, you tin acceptable your Sony TV to show a proximity alert if it detects idiosyncratic is excessively adjacent to the screen. Tired of telling your kids to not beryllium truthful adjacent to the TV? Well, present the full surface volition achromatic retired if they don't determination away. The camera besides offers "viewing region compensation" that adjusts the brightness and dependable based connected however acold distant you are from the TV.

Finally, your Bravia TV volition dim if the Bravia Cam senses you’ve near the room.

At first, the Bravia Cam volition lone beryllium disposable to usage for video chatting, but Sony said a firmware update volition adhd each the different features. 

You tin physically crook disconnected the camera and its built-in mic. Sony said the mic is not ever listening, and nary backstage information is stored connected the camera, the TV, oregon Sony’s servers. You tin adjacent wide the camera’s information via your TV’s settings.

The Sony Bravia Cam volition beryllium bundled with prime models of Bravia TV, including the caller Z9K Mini LED and A95K QD-OLED sets. It'll beryllium disposable separately for the A90K, A80K, X95K, X90K, X85K, and X980K Series TVs. Pricing volition beryllium announced person to its merchandise aboriginal successful 2022.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 4 January 2022.