And that without calling in twice. Laptop cameras as normally very crap. They say “1080p”, but most of the time they are 720p or less and have maybe 2 megapixels or less. Phones have way more and can be connected to the laptop via USB. There must be a way to use their camera over USB, right?
I know of USB over LAN, so surely this is possible.
Wow, I didn’t know that scrcpy offered so much more than screen mirroring. Finally I can dismiss Droidcam! ٩( ๑╹ ꇴ╹)۶
I’m not sure when they added it and it might only be some phones (I have a pixel 9 pro), but you can just plug your phone in via USB and use the USB mode notification to switch it to webcam mode
- Bring live video from your smartphone, remote computer, or friends directly into OBS or other studio software.
- We use cutting edge Peer-to-Peer forwarding technology that offers privacy and ultra-low latency
For a wifi option, you can use Droidcam with OBS. Setup the virtual camera inside OBS and you’ve got a wifi webcam that you can walk around with.
I’ve used that setup many times and it’s sweet. At work my coworkers are all astonished and amazed when I use the OBS virtual camera pass-through to my virtual desktop to walk around while talking (I use a wireless headset for the audio). I can even show various overlays of my desktop with my face and a downcam I have setup for demonstrations (like a craft cam setup).
Combine it with RVC voice changing silliness and they’re all blown away. The security folks (of which I’m a part, haha) always freak out a little bit when they see me share my Linux desktop when I’m on Teams via the company’s virtual desktop. “That shouldn’t be possible!” Haha
I don’t have the heart to show them how you can copy and paste huge amounts of text into the virtual desktop directly (clipboard sharing is disabled and prohibited 🤣).