Webcams are terrible. Even the best webcam you can buy is worse than the selfie camera on the front of your phone.

Why is it that the miniature camera in your phone can take incredible photos in the dark, but your webcam struggles to make you look like anything more than a grainy, blown-out mess? And it’s not just webcams. Most of the peripherals you plug into your computer are just as technologically outdated. What’s going on? Most of us are still using peripherals designed in the last century, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

"I use a 3D space mouse every day to design products," aerospace engineer Étienne Piché-Jutras told Lifewire via Twitter. "It helps me manipulate models as if I were holding them in my hand."

We're used to seeing beautiful photos of ourselves and each other, but when it comes to video calls, everyone looks terrible.