Camo
release notes

Today’s update to Camo Studio fixes an issue with notifications. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix We've fixed an issue which could occur at launch with Windows Notification support on some machines.

Today's release includes two commonly-requested features: 4K resolution and green screen support! If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature 4k for phones is here! You can now get super high resolution video out of your iOS and Android devices running the latest versions of the Camo app.
• Feature If you have a real green screen, you can now dial in a Chroma Key yourself instead of using Camo’s ML segmentation feature.
• Feature The Overlay Editor has been amped-up with various Quality of Life features, including Undo/Redo, Copy/Paste (even from other apps!) and Multi-select.
• Improvement We've gone through our new interface from top to bottom to make it more usable with keyboard navigation and Narrator. Watch this space for more a11y improvements in future updates!
• Improvement Camo Studio will now make use of Windows’ native notifications to warn you about different things, even if the app is minimized.
• Improvement You can now pair new wireless devices directly from Settings > Devices.
• Fix We've fixed an issue where your video could be upside-down in certain versions of Microsoft Teams.
• Fix The “Pause” icon should now always be centered, even on non-16:9 resolutions.
• Fix Users with Gigabyte hardware should no longer be asked whether their motherboard is an Android device.
• Fix New text elements in the Overlay Editor now no longer have an unspecified phantom font. 👻
• Fix We've fixed a bug where overlays would not render in the video preview in specific cases.
• Fix Some error windows you could see when running multiple instances of Camo Studio or importing a corrupt LUT have been made clearer to understand.

Today's release includes a few bug fixes and improvements. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature Camo Studio can now apply an audio delay to sound coming from your phone.
• Improvement We've broadened support for controlling white-balance and exposure in Camo when using webcams which don't support those controls themselves.
• Improvement When you start Camo, it will now always attempt to select the last used camera if it's still connected. It will also no longer automatically switch to a different device if the one you're using is disconnected and pause the video feed instead.
• Improvement We've added a beautiful blur effect to your video when switching between devices.
• Improvement You can now reorder overlays and LUTs by dragging them around the gallery.
• Improvement Paired wireless devices have been moved to a dedicated tab in the app settings.
• Improvement The window that shows when there's an error has a fresh new look. Hopefully you'll never see it!
• Improvement We've reworked the sliders in the app to make them easier to use.
• Improvement We've made it clearer to free users which features will work with their webcam if they upgrade to Camo Pro by showing those controls as enabled in the app interface.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which led to Camo sometimes showing video from the previously connected device for a moment after switching devices.
• Fix We've overhauled how we handle graphics card issues (such as when updating your graphics card drivers).
• Fix Previously when mirroring video in Camo the pan position would jump to a different position in the frame, that's fixed now.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that Camo's update window didn't look right in dark mode.
• Fix The exposure calibration LUT wasn't loading properly, that's fixed now.
• Fix We fixed a bug which led to overlays sometimes being cut off after changing resolution.
• Fix We've fixed an issue when using Camo with a video capture card which isn't currently outputting video.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that changing resolution from the system tray icon wouldn't work if the Camo window was closed and Camo's video wasn't being used by any other apps.
• Fix A few users got in touch with us about a rare AccessViolation error when opening Camo, that's fixed now.
• Fix A couple of users with a virtual SRGB colour device profile wrote in to let us know they were having issues with Camo, that's fixed now!
• Fix We’ve fixed some spots in the app that were acting up if you had a looooooong preset or category name.

Today's release fixes some smaller bugs along with preparatory work for new activation controls coming to our website soon. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Improvement We'll soon be giving you more control over device activations on the Camo website, this release includes some changes to prepare for that.
• Fix We spotted that things don’t look right when Windows is using a high contrast theme, that's fixed now.
• Fix We've fixed an issue which occurs when using the Filter Gallery to try a variety of filters in quick succession.
• Fix We've improved how we handle certain rare issues when using portrait or auto-framing modes with webcams.

Hot on the heels of Camo 2, today we're releasing Camo 2.0.1 which brings a couple of bug fixes and an upgrade for portrait mode in some resolutions. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Improvement We've significantly improved the quality of portrait, privacy, and replace modes for webcams when your video isn't in a landscape 16:9 resolution.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which led to the video unpausing when changing resolution.
• Fix We've fixed an issue which occurred when no webcams or phones are connected after installing Camo's NVIDIA add-on.
• Fix We've fixed an issue which users were seeing when Camo’s NVIDIA add-on fails to download. If the download fails you will now be able to retry it.

Today we’re releasing Camo 2. Camo 2 takes all the magic of Camo, improves on it, and brings it to any webcam, built-in camera, connected pro camera or action camera to give them next-gen capabilities. These include beautiful bokeh "portrait" mode, spotlight, natural privacy blur, background replacement, auto-framing face tracking, and cinematic "LUT" filters. Camo 2 also brings support for 4K webcams and dedicated cameras. You can read more about this update on our blog.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature Camo Studio now works with all cameras! You can now use Camo Studio with any camera you can connect to your PC.
• Feature Camo Studio's interface has been re-worked from the ground up, bringing you a beautiful "Fluent" Windows 11-style interface.
• Feature Portrait mode has been overhauled on iOS and is also now available for all cameras. It can also now be used in combination with AR modes.
• Feature Spotlight mode ensures you stand out in your shot, brightening you up against the background.
• Feature Privacy blur lets you hide what’s in shot behind you, removing the need for jarring video-conferencing background removal.
• Feature Replace mode enables you to substitute your background scene with a replacement backdrop or a virtual greenscreen.
• Feature Dynamic face tracking with auto framing, with and without zoom. This is powered by a new physics engine, bringing face tracking which is smooth and cinematic, without the jerkiness or dizzying movements that other face tracking solutions introduce.
• Feature We've added native LUT support to Camo. These are cinematic filters which enable film-like treatments to your video. We've included a pack of 18 thoughtfully created presets.
• Feature We’ve added hardware acceleration for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA for non-phone cameras.
• Feature The Camo Studio overlay editor is now available on Windows. You can create customisable text, shapes, images, and coloured overlays from a wealth of templates, or design your own from scratch without needing additional software. You can also switch between overlays easily with keyboard shortcuts, as well as seeing a preview of what your video will look like, and drag overlays in and out of Camo to share or import them.
• Feature To ensure it’s always providing perfectly smooth video Camo Studio now detects any situations where your camera fails to deliver at the requested frame rate, and will show a warning with suggestions on how to fix things.
• Feature You can use the new “Advanced” area of the “Settings” window to specify which device is used for processing video.
• Improvement When Camo Studio is paused it'll now apply a beautiful soft blur to your video.
• Improvement We've re-worked our system tray icon, to make it easier to tell if Camo's video is being used or if there is anything which needs your attention.
• Improvement We've made significant improvements to Camo's performance when using overlays on iPhone.

Today’s release brings a couple of bug fixes around wireless connections and more. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix We’ve resolved an issue that could cause the pairing process to fail to complete in some cases.
• Fix Fixed a crash that could happen due to unsupported resolutions being selected on some Android phones.
• Fix Fixed a rare crash when trying to connect wirelessly to a previously paired device.

Today’s release focuses on fixing a couple of rare bugs. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix We’ve fixed a bug that was causing issues with certain device names.
• Improvement Connecting a new wireless device will no longer automatically switch to it if you’re already using another device.

We’re excited to be launching Camo 1.9 today, which brings support for wireless connections to devices running both iOS and Android! Find out more about the release.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature Connect your iOS or Android device to your computer via Wi-Fi. No more wires!
• Feature Camo Studio now displays paired Wi-Fi devices and other preferences in a dedicated Settings window. Expect more things to appear there in future releases!
• Improvement We’ve redesigned the on-screen instructions when a device isn’t connected to be clearer and provide extra guidance for connecting devices over Wi-Fi.
• Improvement Camo Studio will now warn you if your device is connected through a USB hub, which can potentially reduce performance.
• Improvement We’ve redesigned the Camo Compatibility Pack installer to be more informative, including a detailed progress indicator.

Today’s update to Camo Studio fixes a minor issue with the zoom and pan controls. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that you could sometimes see black video at the edges when using the zoom and pan controls.

We're excited to be launching Camo 1.8 today which brings support for 60 fps video and adjustable frame rate controls, along with "Smart Zoom", video stabilisation, improved colour and brightness adjustments, and high GPU priority mode to boost Camo Studio’s performance when gaming or streaming.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature Frame-rate controls have long been one of our most popular feature requests, and now they’re here! Camo now lets users choose from a range of frame-rates between 15 and 60 fps, making it easy for streamers to match their camera frame rate with the stream.
• Feature We've added Smart Zoom, which lets you take advantage of your iPhone's 4K sensors regardless of which resolution you're using. Camo now avoids using digital zoom wherever possible, and instead rely on a higher resolution source image from the camera’s sensor, mimicking lossless optical zoom. Smart Zoom can be enabled in Camo Studio’s Advanced menu.
• Feature Virtual rotation gives you the ability to choose between landscape and portrait video without having to physically rotate your phone. This makes use of the "Smart Zoom" feature to ensure the video is perfectly crisp.
• Feature We’ve added the option to run Camo Studio with high GPU priority, this will significantly improve Camo’s performance when doing graphically intensive tasks on your PC, such as gaming and streaming. To use this new feature select "Enable High GPU Priority” from the Advanced menu.
• Feature Camo's new image stabilisation functionality minimises the effect of vibrations and other disturbances on the image, great for desk mounted devices, wobbly mounts, or heavy-handed typists.
• Feature We've added a vibrancy control, which gives you a way to boost or dampen duller colours in a way that’s less heavy-handed and artificial than using the saturation control.
• Feature We've added the ability to export Camo Studio's logs, using the "Export logs" option in the "Advanced" menu.
• Feature We've made a change to how Camo Studio's video preview is handled, which will lead to performance improvements when using Camo Studio with hardware acceleration turned off.
• Improvement The brightness control has now been completely re-worked to give you finer grained control and make you look less washed out when increasing brightness.

Today's update brings changes behind the scenes in preparation for our next major update, watch this space! If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix We've fixed a bug which could lead to portrait orientations of 1080p and 720p being missing from the options.

We’re delighted to bring you a packed Camo Studio Windows update today! This update brings full compatibility with all Windows video apps, including Nvidia Broadcast, WhatsApp, the Windows built-in camera app, and many more! We also have lots of UI updates, including giving you more control on whether Camo Studio should be in light or dark mode.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature We've overhauled how Camo Studio communicates with other video apps. This brings full compatibility with all Windows video apps, including Nvidia Broadcast, WhatsApp, Splitcam, XSplit, mmhmm, Telegram, WebEx, and Windows' very own built-in camera app.
• Improvement We've made it much simpler to change resolution while using Camo Studio in a video call.
• Improvement You can now set Camo Studio light or dark mode independent of the Windows system setting.
• Improvement We've made a bunch of other minor improvements to the UI.
• Fix We’ve made a change to ensure that Android devices connect to Camo Studio even if they’ve previously been ignored.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that Camo Studio could prevent your computer from sleeping.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that sometimes when double-clicking on our taskbar icon Camo Studio would not appear.

Today’s update is a small change to prevent issues when running Camo Studio on old versions of Windows.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We’d love to help and hear from you.

Today's Camo update resolves a number of small issues and should make it easier for some Android devices to connect!

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Improvement We’ve improved Camo’s compatibility with a number of Android devices that sometimes failed to connect.
• Improvement We've tweaked the appearance of Camo Studio in a couple of places.
• Fix We've fixed an issue some users saw when installing Apple Mobile Device Services.

Today's Camo update resolves a number of small issues. We're hard at work on major update, and can't wait to share that with you.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix We've resolved a number of issues, including a bug where Camo might ask for a review too often. Sorry!

Today's update fixes an issue introduced in the previous release.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix We've fixed a bug where we would ask for a review when this was not currently possible, which could cause a crash or other problems.

Today's update adds a couple of features and fixes a lot of minor bugs we had! If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature Added an About window so you can easily see information about the version of Camo Studio you're using.
• Fix Fixed an issue on Windows 7 where it was sometimes hard to see some items in the caption bar.
• Fix Fixed an issue with some discoloured pixels on the upgrade window.
• Fix Fixed an issue where you might get bad video performance.
• Fix The create preset window now reacts to light and dark mode changes as well as new accent colour.
• Fix Fixed a small UI bug when Android devices get an error.
• Fix Fixed an issue where Camo Studio failed to install.

Today's update is all about the small but crucial bug fixes needed to ensure that everyone has an excellent experience with Camo Studio. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Improvement The Camo virtual camera has been renamed, and is now simply "Camo"!
• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that click to focus sometimes wouldn't work.
• Fix We've fixed an issue which led to subtle issues with the colour of the video when using Camo with an NVIDIA graphics card.
• Fix We've fixed an issue which prevented some enterprise users from activating Camo Studio when connected to a VPN.
• Fix We spotted a bug which meant the preview magnification level shown in the top-left corner of Camo Studio could be wrong when display scaling is enabled, that's fixed now.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that Camo Studio could look blurry when moved between high and low DPI displays.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that the text in the update window would be too small when using Camo Studio on a display with a high level of text scaling.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that the pan and magnification control would appear to be active even when no device was connected.
• Fix We've fixed a rare issue when installing the Apple components Camo Studio needs to connect to an iPhone.
• Fix We've made a couple of minor tweaks to polish the appearance of the mode menus.

We're very excited today to be releasing version 1.1 of Camo Studio for Windows. This update brings Windows 11's rounded corners, Nvidia Broadcast support, a complete overhaul of how we handle video, significant improvements to the new user experience, along with the normal collection of tweaks and bug fixes.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature On Windows 11 Camo Studio now has the beautiful rounded corners you'd expect!
• Feature We've added support for using Camo Studio with Nvidia Broadcast.
• Improvement We've overhauled how Camo Studio handles video, including upgrading to using DirectX 11 where possible. This should lead to substantial performance improvements, particularly on high-resolution screens where we've seen a halving of the demands Camo Studio's makes on your computer.
• Improvement We've also made big changes to how Camo Studio ensures that you have the Apple tools needed to communicate with an iPhone. This will make it more straightforward to get set up connecting Camo Studio to your iPhone, and also means that if you're using an Android phone you'll no longer need to install any Apple tools in order to use Camo Studio.
• Improvement We've improved the experience when uninstalling Camo Studio while still using Camo audio.
• Improvement We've improved how Camo Studio identifies Android devices, and added the option to hide devices which you don't want to use.
• Fix We've fixed an issue which made it possible to lose Camo Studio behind other windows which meant that double-clicking on the Camo Studio icon in the bottom-right of the taskbar wouldn't always make the window visible.
• Fix We've fixed a couple of issues around activating Camo Studio and handling license expiry.
• Fix We've fixed an issue which occasionally led to Camo Studio to be slow to start sending video to other applications.
• Fix We've fixed a couple of rare issues that some users saw when opening Camo Studio.