Microsoft is eager to make the experience of video calling as close to the experience of chatting in real life as possible. The company has released its first high-definition (HD) 1080p webcam, called the LifeCam Studio.

The web camera has a true 1080p sensor (twice as big as the sensor found in Microsoft's top-end webcam, the LifeCam Cinema HD) and a clean, graphic industrial design that looks like it was appropriated from a high-end video camera.