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Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by HPsquared on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:14AM (#25506965)
Phones can already be used as a webcam, e.g droidcam app. No need for special hardware.
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Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by infomax on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:44AM (#25507358)
DroidCam connected via USB on my Android smartphone makes a great 1080p webcam. The latency is minimal.

It has great linux support and works great with OBS (and its chroma key filter)

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Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by ciarancour on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @01:16PM (#25509329)
Seconded, I wasn't satisfied leaving droidcam streaming over wifi 24x7, password or no password, so I have a shell alias to unlock phone and open droidcam over ADB USB debugging.
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Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by dathinab on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @04:12PM (#25511310)
It depends on you phone.

I tried it with my phone and latencies made it unusable for video-conference usages. Given that this is my main usage reasonable low latenzies are for me much more important then super good image quality. So when I had to buy one recently I ended up with a ~70€ not super good but not bad webcam. I thing normally I might have bought something like a C920 but prices-return ratio was just madness when I bought (sight, Covid19 madness ;=) )

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