Is there any way to use my old Logitech Quickcam Express on Catalina?

I have an old Logitech Quickcam Express - the one that looks like this:

I have a 2018 MacBook Pro running Catalina, and I'd like (if possible) to use the webcam with it. If I plug it in, I can see it in System Information:

...but I can't use it in Photo Booth nor in Google Meets in Chrome (which is where I'd actually like to use it). Is there anything I can do so that I can use the webcam with my Mac?

Solution 1:

Not trying to be flippant, but I haven't seen that camera since the waning years of the 20th century. (It was released in 1999, BTW.) According to this FAQ page at Logitech, it is unsupported 'on the Macintosh platform'. It will not work on a USB3 port, and there are no macOS drivers. We use a number of these Logitech webcams in classrooms and they are amazingly good.

Solution 2:

Generally speaking as long as the webcam is a standard USB video device, it will work as those drivers are included with macOS.

However, those vintage webcams required Logitech drivers to be installed as it was a DSC WIA device per C|Net so it needed a Mac specific driver. What you’re seeing is that the webcam is detected and identified, it just doesn’t have the proper drivers to work.