So this thing can do all this stuff and THEN send the altered signal to iChat to use?

That's neat. The last issue of Macworld had a guy asking how to flip the video in iChat (he wanted to hang his camera upside down) and the Macworld writer didn't know of a program that could alter the image and THEN share that image with iChat.

If this does that then it looks like they solved that problem. This doesn't flip the video, it seems, but now that it exists I'm sure it can be expanded in the future.

Sorry I didn't make it clear, iGlasses is only available from within iChat. I didn't find a feature that would allow flipping of the video, unfortunately.

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Sorry I didn't make it clear, iGlasses is only available from within iChat. I didn't find a feature that would allow flipping of the video, unfortunately.

Still cool. Like I said, putting it in there is the hard part. I'll have to keep this in mind in case anyone else I know ever gets a web camera

I gladly paid the $8 shareware fee. I have a rather dark room where my iSight is used and the iGlasses program has greatly improved the brightness of my outgoing video.

Larry Spencer

I wrote extensively about iGlasses. What a neato application. My iSight camera has always been a bit dark as light in my home office is low. iGlasses makes the video for iChat normal. I'd love to see this little application move over to other cool Mac apps like Videocue, which also use the iSight camera. Videocue is a teleprompter with scads of features, but iGlasses is built-in to iChat. If your iSight camera is a bit dark, just download and try iGlasses. The difference is instant.

Tera Patricks - Mac360.com

But if this is only available within iChat that's not going to work, since I use iVisit with PC friends.

Why these BASIC controls aren't available with the iSight itself is beyond me. It's picture quality is worse than the much less expensive Logitech camera I used to have, that Logitech refused to write an OS X driver for.

In fact, between the two companies, trying to own and use a webcam has been the most disappointing experience of OS X. I mean, it's not been the end of the world, but I miss being able to visit with my PC owning family members.

Judging from the comments it looks like there would be a market for a System Preference app for tweaking the iSight output irrespective of what application is using it.

Any developers listening?

Hi. I'm the developer of iGlasses. Just wanted to let you all know that the next version will expand the iGlasses window to work with other webcam apps. Also, we'll allow you to flip upside down

-Ken

There's definitely a need.

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Hi. I'm the developer of iGlasses. Just wanted to let you all know that the next version will expand the iGlasses window to work with other webcam apps. Also, we'll allow you to flip upside down

-Ken

Well, if that's so, get yourself the December 2004 issue of Macworld and check out page 99. Someone asks about this and the only solution they can think of is an arm that you can put the camera on to move it without flipping it.

I'd write a letter to the magazine if I were you!

Hi Gang--

Looks like Glen, the developer of iGlasses, has been listening to your requests. I just received this update from him:

"I just wanted to let you know that the latest iGlasses version (1.1) adds the following nice features:

-Adds support for the following video applications: iMovie 4, QuickTime Broadcaster, iSpQ, Yahoo! Messenger, GCam, iVisit, and EvoCam.
-Adds the ability to flip the video image upside down or mirrored (iChat only)."

Be sure to give Glen your support! This is a great piece of software.

You say "Lastly, iGlasses allows the use of the iSight on G3 computers which are slower than 600 MHz. Sure, it may not be the greatest experience, but at least you'll be able to use your iSight." Is there anything in particular that makes you refer to G3s? What about my 400 mhz G4? And can I use this with my firewire camcorder as I don't want to buy an iSight camera and understand iChatAV works with any Firewire camera?
Thanks.