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Re:Show HN: Stream your pen/paper, explain remote students s... by jsilence on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:08PM (#22927211)
What benefit does this have over a cheaply USB webcam and OBS with the obs-virtualcam plugin?
Re:Show HN: Stream your pen/paper, explain remote students s... by txzenwozb on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:26PM (#22930519)
Hello fellow hacker that was the first thought we even thought to provide a camera source like snapcam and others do but we wanted to keep it simple and take a zero installation approach this is output we got.

An interesting tidbit, on javascript side even if we are paying a video, we expect phones to not turn off display but some phones still turn off the display. This was one scenerio when we thought app would be appropriate

Re:Show HN: Stream your pen/paper, explain remote students s... by superhuzza on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:33PM (#22927510)
Realistically do most people even have separate webcams at home?

I know I don't, but there's at least 5 smartphones somewhere in the house. Harnessing those cameras via wifi is pretty useful.

Re:Show HN: Stream your pen/paper, explain remote students s... by copperx on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:34PM (#22928849)
I don't have a separate webcam, but I use my Pixel 2 as an OBS webcam with DroidCamX with much better quality that a fancy $200 Logitech webcam. There is a similar app for iOS. Even better, you can use multiple phones for different angles or to point to a notepad.