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Unity: displaying the video input from multiple webcams
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Programming
This post explains how to capture the images from a web camera connected to the computer and use them as a texture in Unity. However, this tutorial focuses on switching between the video inputs from different webcams attached to desktop computers (PC and Mac). However it should work on Android with some minor modifications. The code featured in this article has been developed and tested using a free license of Unity 3.5.3f3. As usual an example project with all the code featured in this article is available for download at the end of the post.
Before explaining how to choose from a list of multiple connected webcams to render from, let’s see how to preview the captured images from a single camera. Doing that in Unity is very simple and it can be achieved with just a few lines of code. Take a look at this C# script: (more…)