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Is the IR camera on modern high end laptops used for anything else other than facial recognition?

Some modern premium laptops come with an IR camera along with the normal integrated camera, which is used by Windows Hello for facial recognition. Is this feature used by anything else? For example, I'...
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Windows Hello camera gets turned off after some time - how to increase or disable this timeout?

I have added a Hello-capable camera to my Windows 10 (20H2) PC so that I can log on with face recognition without touching the keyboard our mouse. This generally works fine. However, after some time (...
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Can't use my camera for Windows Hello?

I have a Logitech HD Pro C920. I've plugged it in and I've been using it for over a year with OBS and Chrome. Recently I decided to mess around with Windows Hello and use my camera to sign in. Long ...
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