Why has webcam technology stagnated so significantly? If you're

Because smartphones.

Why do you need other options? What more do you want out of a webcam?

>>55710515
4K 144hz.

Because you can't really transmit high quality video in real time

People buy laptops and use the cam inside or use a phone.

>>55710542
fuck off summer
>>>/v/

>>55710542

Retard.

>>55710486

>Why has webcam technology stagnated so significantly?
Ease of availability of decent, integrated solutions.

It's what's killed the markets for:
Low-end Dedicated GPUs
Compact Cameras
Personal Media Players
Audio/Sound Cards
"Computer Speakers"
High-Perf. non-gaming mice
Low-to-mid range computer microphones

All of these are/have been integrated into Laptops/Computers/Phones and the casual consumer no longer needs to buy a "compact camera" when their iPhone takes an acceptable photo and is always with them. Nobody cares about a low-end dedicated GPU when their processor's built-in GPU can handle everything it could just fine. The thought of a long-living, reasonable performing, well designed non-gaming mouse is absurd these days. Consumers'll buy a $15 Logitech Wireless mouse that's gonna die/get lost after the 3rd battery change every time.

Acceptable front-facing cameras are already in Phones and tablets (the preferred method of communication for most people anyway), laptops, and AiOs, so the only people buying external USB webcams are power users and legacy users. Both of which make for terrible markets to sell to.

To be fair, with the advent of streamers becoming big, it seems there is a little bit of renewed interest in quality webcams, but ultimately, >>55710568 is right. Why have a source device crank out a resolution, frame rate, and bit-rate that a live-stream is going to downsample to hell anyway.

>>55710486
Because you can drop $10 on a dv or other small handheld at a flea market, capture the output from that and have the highest quality webcam in existence without spending a retarded amount of money on logishit.

>>55710511
Fuck off

>>55710486
Infrastructure doesn't really support much else. You either have budget internet that can just barely stream from your budget camera, or you spend a lot of money on your internet and are able to utilize a higher quality stream.

>>55710486
it looks like it cannot be turned sideways or even tilted up/down, even my 3$ no name cam can do it

even worse is that you cant even trust the specs
>FullHD 60fps
check details
>max snapshot resolution 1920x1080*
>max video resolution 1080x720* at 10 fps, 640x480 at 30 fps
>*interpolated