Try this freaky webcam tool to transform your image in weird ways

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/23/try-this-freaky-webcam-tool-to.html

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Oh man, forget background replacement, this is what I need for my meetings.

I feel like I should be in the Watchmen now

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This needs to be a Zoom filter. Like right now.

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If you want to use interesting filters on Zoom, download Snap Camera.

It’s from Snapchat, but you don’t need to get a snapchat account to use it. It creates a new camera device that you can select in Zoom (or anything else), and will apply filters to the image from the built-in cam.

Here’s the “Potato” lens. Yes, it tracks your eye and lip movements.

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That’s pretty neat!

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I really wish it had a camera selection button. Opening it on my surface, it selects the camera facing away from me.

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It’s working for me in Chrome on my Surface. Head to Chrome settings, search for ‘Camera’, then select the front facing camera:

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Thanks for that suggestion… It never occurred to me to look specifically at the browser settings… Now I can even play with the IR camera…

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Interesting! That’s the only app I’ve seen that shows the IR cam as being selectable… rabbit hole time, more toys!

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I had to look at the results with two other webcam html programs I’d come across in the past…

https://onehtmlpagechallenge.com/entries/ascii-cam.html

https://airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/webcammesh/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hnycombinator+(HN+-+hnycombinator)

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Handy tutorial page about HTML5 web cam support, with a preview control:

IR cam is interesting. Wonder if there’s any way of making it show up in Skype or Teams… :thinking:

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