Live camera
Turn on your camera in a Nebula call and let your agent see what you show it — hold something up, read a label, or check what you are pointing at.
Turn on your camera in a call and your agent can see what you show it. Hold up a router, a receipt, a whiteboard, or a part number, and ask about it directly.
Turning it on
The camera pill sits in the controls bar alongside your mic and speaker. The icon turns your webcam on and off; the caret picks which camera, sets quality, and opens Video settings.
| Quality | Resolution | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Low | 320 × 240 | The lightest option — slow connections |
| Standard | 640 × 480 | Balanced, and the default |
| HD | 1280 × 720 | Sharpest — showing detail |
Video settings gives you a live preview before you go on, so you can check your framing while the camera is still off. Whatever you pick sticks as the default for your next call.
Your own video comes back to you mirrored and labelled You, and anyone with a camera on picks up a Video badge on their tile. Cameras share the stage with screenshares — one is focused at a time, with the rest as thumbnails.
Letting your agent see you
Your agent looks through your camera the same way it looks at a shared screen: when you ask, not continuously.
Can you read the model number on this router I'm holding up?
It reads AX3000-B, and there's a second line underneath: FW 1.4.2. Want me to look up whether that firmware is current?
It reads the camera of whoever is speaking, so "can you see this?" always means yours — you never have to name a camera. It only sees people whose own camera is on, and if yours is off it'll ask you to turn it on rather than guess at what you meant.
What it's good for
Model numbers, serial plates, error codes on a device, a label too small to type out. Hold it up and ask.
A whiteboard, a rack of equipment, a room you're describing. Easier to point a camera at than to write down.
If your hands are busy, talking and showing beats stopping to type — the agent takes a look each time you ask.
Camera and screen share aren't either/or. Share your screen for what's on the computer and switch the camera on for what's in front of you — the stage handles both, focusing one at a time.
Permissions
The first time you turn the camera on, your operating system asks for camera access. It's the standard prompt, and you can change it later in your system's privacy settings.
Related
Sharing your screen
Share your screen on a Nebula call and ask your agent what it sees — read an error, pull text off a stack trace, or talk through a dashboard together.
Voices
Choose the voice Nebula speaks with on calls, design a new one, or clone your own from a recording — then tune your mic, speaker, and noise cancellation.