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all the way back in May of 2024 we got
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an early look at a new feature that has
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rolled out in Chrome OS 132 it's kind of
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been there since 131 and maybe even 130
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behind some Flags but it's called face
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control and it's uh it's an
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accessibility feature that lets you do
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exactly what it says it lets you control
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your Chromebooks Mouse input with your
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face so let's check it
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out so overall this thing is quite
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simple and uh if you're on Chrome OS 132
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all you got to do is go into your
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settings and then the easiest way to get
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there is just go up here to the search
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and just type face and you'll see face
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control pop up and early on when we were
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trying this you could tell it was very
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experimental like this weird camera
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thing would show up and it show how it
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was like tracking stuff on your face uh
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it was super weird they have completely
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cleaned all that stuff up it's very very
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uh userfriendly here so I'm just going
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to go and turn it on um and now you can
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see up at the top there's a little icon
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my camera light has come on and you can
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see my cursor is moving already around
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the screen and just following my face
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it's kind of fun the first time you do
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it it's like oh my God like I can't
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believe this thing's moving so I'm going
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to turn it off real quick so that I can
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actually talk it's kind of hard to talk
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with my head completely still um and so
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you have a couple um settings here that
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you would obviously need for Mouse
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control so um you can adjust the speed
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separately for each direction if you
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turn that off you basically just have
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one cursor speed but what I found in
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messing with this just like with uh like
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if you're sit and mouse controls on a
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game you kind of want to do different
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controls for left right up and down like
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up and down you don't really move your
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head that much if you think about it
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like during the day just in general you
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don't you don't spend a lot of time
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doing a lot of this but you'll look over
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your shoulders no big deal so uh you
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kind of want the up and down to be a
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little bit more sensitive so that you
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don't have to make these huge movements
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to get to the top and bottom of your
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screen but the left and right you want
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to kind of keep in the middle that's at
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least what I've kind of found to be true
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so uh I'm going to I'm going to crank
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the up and down up just a little bit
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here
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go there and then the left and right I'm
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actually going to take down a notch I
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think that's about where my sweet spot's
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been and then you have cursor stability
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so think about this as mouse mouse
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smoothing um basically if it's
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responsive if we go all the way down on
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full responsive uh it's going to try to
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move exactly when you move as as close
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as it can to following your face uh if I
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go to stable it's going to kind of lag
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behind a little bit I'm going to show
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you that here in just a second it's
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going to lag behind a little bit but
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it'll really smooth the cursor out so H
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to each his own you can kind of mess
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around with that then you have cursor
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acceleration no different than Mouse
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acceleration so if I'm touching the
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trackpad right now and I'm moving nice
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and slow the cursor moves slow but if I
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make a quick movement I mean it in the
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same amount of space on the trackpad
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that cursor is flown across the
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screen for me that has been a little
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weird cuz you'll have one twitch
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movement and then the cursor goes flying
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somewhere so um I don't completely love
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that but I'm going to turn it on just to
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show you and I'm going to crank this up
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a little bit and then we're going to
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turn this back on again okay okay and
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you can see now that it doesn't take a
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whole lot of movement up and down with
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my face to move the cursor and I feel
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like that's a little more natural versus
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left and right I feel like it's tracking
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right with like if my nose was pointing
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at the screen that feels way more normal
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um so I'm going to try to hold my head
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still here a little bit I'm going to
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turn the cursor stability all the way
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down so this is super responsive and you
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can see it looks a little jittery but it
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is it is moving exactly when I move my
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face now I'm going to slide that thing
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all the way up to stable if I get a hold
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of it here and set it back here and you
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can kind of see it lags behind a little
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bit hopefully you'll be able to see that
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but this movement looks a little
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smoother I personally don't see a whole
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lot of difference between the two so I
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think leaving this one kind of in the
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middle as where you want to be and then
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I'm going to turn this acceleration off
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and see how that feels and see to me I
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think for this for figuring out exactly
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where you want your cursor to be it
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makes a lot more sense to turn off
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acceleration again all these things are
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here um so that you can try them out and
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see which one works best for you if you
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need to use this feature okay finally uh
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there are actually some shortcuts that
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you can uh leverage and forgive me if
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the cursor jumps around I have to leave
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the the feature turned on obviously to
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turn this on so I'm going to try to keep
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my head nice and still here but here at
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the bottom under actions you can uh set
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some different actions um based on uh
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different facial movements and so um
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pause resume face control reset cursor
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to Center could probably be really
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helpful I think so you could set
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something for that but I'm going to go
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with left click so I'm going to go to
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left click and going hit next and then
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we get to choose so you can see there's
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kind of a little animation for each one
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that kind of just shows you what they're
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trying to get across so like move your
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mouth left it would be kind of this
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number um but I think there's another
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shift your jaw so I'm guessing this um
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again I didn't have a whole lot of luck
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with with all of these cuz I don't know
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if I'm just not expressive to pull them
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off U but we have some squinting so um I
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like raise eyebrows let's do that one
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let's do raise
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eyebrows um that's fine I don't know
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what it's what it's pinned to oh here we
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go this is actually new I haven't messed
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with this yet um and so yeah so raise my
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eyebrows and you can kind of see that
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meter down there it's letting you know
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I'm not quite there so I need to change
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my threshold this is fantastic so this
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might work way better than last time I
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used this so boom now you see it light
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up well done here this is this is cool I
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feel like I'm really having to work to
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get it to go though so I'm going to I'm
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going to turn down just a little bit
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more there we go I don't do that very
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often I don't like look at my screen and
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sit there and do this so I think I'd be
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safe with that so now I have all of my
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cursor settings done and I have a left a
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left click set up so I'm going to um
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what do I want to go to I'm going to go
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to wallpaper and style
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boom
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accessibility uh
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accounts how sweet is that I mean that's
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really really cool and the setup is so
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well done um definitely would want to if
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I was using this on a regular basis uh
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and it again it depends on the person if
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if you lack enough Mobility where like
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this is going to be absolutely your
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primary input on your device leave it on
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I I wouldn't I would never turn it off
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but it's definitely something if you're
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not going to be using it all the time uh
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I would definitely have the shortcut set
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to turn it off so you could like set
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your raised eyebrows or show your teeth
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in order to turn the feature off so that
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your mouse isn't jumping all over the
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screen screen cuz it does follow your
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face all the time and sometimes you're
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just kind of chasing the mouse around
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the screen because it's again it's
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following your face so I mean that's
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about it um and I I hate saying that
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because this is an incredible feature
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using your built-in webcam it's built
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into Chrome OS this isn't some add-on or
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some download that you have to have this
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is just part of using a Chromebook now
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and uh from where it was in May of last
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year when we first saw this to where it
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is now I mean this is a Monumental
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achievement like this is is really
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really uh amazing to see happening and
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uh again just the fact that it's baked
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right into Chrome OS is is pretty
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astounding well done chromos team uh
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again like I haven't used it I don't
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know probably since beta uh 132 and it
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didn't have the the threshold thing that
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I literally making this video just saw
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and it's like these nice touches make
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setting all this up so much easier and
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would make getting this honed in and
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actually like not just a gimmick but
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100% usable uh for a lot of people who
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may have have trouble using a mouse and
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keyboard and so like kudos to Google for
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knocking this out this is a really cool
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addition and hope uh some of you find
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some uh great use uh for this feature in
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Chrome OS and hope this video has been
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helpful uh in you discovering this
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