How can I have the background for the main camera in a scene display the feed from a web cam/camera on a phone?

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Hi all

I’m currently working an AR project aimed at data visualization in an AR environment. My end goal is to have a scene in which a 3D data visualization is rendered and the user can move around it freely as their perspective changes. At the same time, I want the main camera (the one meant to simulate the user’s perspective) to always have the feed from a web camera or camera on a phone as its background. It seems that there have been some similar questions posted about this, but I can’t find any solutions that seem relevant to Unity5. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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To my knowledge, you’d use exactly the same approach in Unity 5 as you did in previous versions of Unity: display the webcam feed on a WebCamTexture: Unity - Scripting API: WebCamTexture

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If you need something similar like in this example, you can use my assets called
Camera Feed on Background or AR Camera Lite.