Technical specifications

• CMOS sensor featuring 2 million true pixels guaranteeing exceptional image quality, even in low-light conditions.
• Photo resolution: 7.6 million pixels! (interpolated mode)
• Video resolution: 2 million pixels!

• USB 2.0 Video Class (UVC) interface for high-speed transfers and simple driverless installation (under Windows® XP SP2 & Vista®)
• Up to 30 frames/sec. for perfectly fluid video images
• Autofocus lens offering a wide viewing angle: 70-degree field of vision. Exceptional! At last, the capacity to be seen standing!
• High-quality microphone guaranteeing pure audio quality, free from background noise
• Universal attachment system compatible with flat screens, laptop displays and CRT monitors
• 360° horizontal rotation and 30° vertical rotation angles
• Brand new user-friendly software Hercules Webcam Station Evolution included:
• Capture photos in 3 modes: Single, Continuous & Timer
• One-click video capture
• Automatic conversion and resizing of captures for email attachments, blogs, iPod®, PSP and instant posting to YouTube!
• Hercules Xtra Controller:
• Enhanced "Chat & Show" feature: in addition to embedding your pictures in your chat sessions’ video flow, you can now play your video files live while you comment them. Have fun dubbing your favourite actors live or record your performances using Webcam Station Evolution!
• 3x digital zoom and automatic face tracking feature
• Also show what you are viewing live (e.g. the website you are currently viewing, etc.)!
• Hilarious new effects (pop art, Flash animations and more)
• Compatible with videoconferencing applications (Windows Live Messenger, MSN® Messenger, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, etc.)
• 1,80 metre USB cable
• Hercules Xtra Controller, the indispensable new companion for all instant messaging software
  featuring the EXCLUSIVE Chat and Show feature

The current situation:

Video conversations soon become boring when all you can see is your friend sitting at his or her computer

You are often tempted to send your holiday photos or videos to your friends via MSN® or Skype, but it’s a lengthy process... and doesn’t always work out: you must locate the files that you wish to send then wait for your contact to accept them before the download can start. Your pictures are all high resolution files and you do not know how to reduce their size, which means that the file transfer lasts for hours... After downloading your pictures, your friend looks at them alone; you cannot comment them for him (or her)...

Hercules has the solution:

The EXCLUSIVE "Chat and Show" feature: thanks to the Hercules Xtra Controller software installed with your Hercules webcam, at any time during a video chat session, you can instantly send your photos to your friend by including them within your conversation’s video flow. No more lengthy and tedious downloads! No conversion required before sending the files: Hercules Xtra Controller handles everything in real time!

Simply select one or more photos on your hard disk drive and start the slideshow: The video captured by your webcam automatically switches to a picture in picture-style display, enabling you to share your emotions while remaining visible to your friend while he (or she) browses through your pictures. (You can move your webcam’s picture around the screen by drag-and-dropping it with your mouse, and enlarge or reduce its size using your mousewheel - or simply choose to hide from view it in order to show only your pictures.)

Smarter still, you can display a hand-shaped pointer, which is also visible to your contact or friend, on the picture that you want to comment live. Left-click to move the pointer around the window to a specific place on your photo.

And that’s not all: you can also show your friend the videos or movies that are stored on your computer while you comment them. Have fun dubbing your favourite actors "live"!