HP’s Spectre x360 16 uses AI to make you look glamorous on video calls

A user in a red dress types on the HP Spectre x360 16 in an evening room at a small wooden table. The screen displays a photo of a group of urban dancers in an outdoor scene in an editing program. To its left is a small lit lamp.

This is the HP Spectre x360 16. | HP

HP makes some of the most gorgeous laptops you can buy, and its Spectre line is the most beautiful of them all. But the new Spectre x360 16, a 16-inch 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop, will flip that dynamic around. Not only is this laptop beautiful — this laptop wants to make you beautiful.

That’s the idea, at least. The Spectre x360 16, starting at $1,639, is the first 16-inch laptop to include an “integrated, intelligent” 5MP webcam, HP claims. But that’s not all. It also comes with a program called — and I love this name — HP GlamCam. It’s not entirely clear what GlamCam will do, but HP claims that one of its main features, Beauty Mode, will “touch up skin, teeth, and eyes” during video calls. The goal, HP says, is to “keep your focus on...