Webcam Support in Unity (iSight or USB Camera)

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I'm looking for something that can acquire video input from a builtin video camera (iSight on an iMac) or USB webcam.

Are there any free drivers/plugins out there that bring video input into Unity3d?

For andriod it's possible to use the Qualcomm AR package but that only enables a video camera on an Andriod device (as far as I know). What to use for Mac or Windows with an iSight or general USB camera?

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I’ve solved it myself now using the built-in WebCamTexture checkout my post on my site showing how to implement it

any chance you can rehost the script? The link is down now. Your time is much appreciated!

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it's up and running :)

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@ikriz: First, thanks a lot for your work. I am trying to download the script from http://www.ikriz.nl/download/Webcam0.2.txt but that link seems to be broken. Could you let me know the exact url please? Also would your script work with unity4.3? I can't seem to find webcamTexture anywhere in the GUI though. Thanks again.

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Can you please post the script as an answer here instead of an external website which has a broken link?

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Jon Martin has got communication of flash video data via sockets to Unity working ! He's working on cleaning up the code and will release it sometime in the future.

http://www.fusedworks.com/blog/development/688

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You can try this. It uses an Air application (Flash) to get the cam feed and send it to unity via a socket connection...

https://github.com/rooch84/UnityFlashCam

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In this case Unity application work with web cam, but I can't understand how. I can't find a word about webcam in docs.

this is indeed exactly what i'm trying to do.. problem is this is a custom made version of the Unity Web Player only for this specific project.

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Bofswana uses a special version of the Unity webplayer, see this forum thread : http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=51354&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc.

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Hi !

This demo [Unity Video Remake: Webcam Textures - iKriz.nl][1]

[1]: Unity Video Remake: Webcam Textures - iKriz.nl is working fine.

But I think it could better to see the webcam of user that are connecting to the scene.

To see my own webcam is not really useful, don’t you think ?

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Hi,

This link http://www.ikriz.nl/2011/12/23/unity-video-remake/ is working fine !

But is it possible to see the user’s webcam that are connecting to the 3D Scene ?

The actually demo show my own Webcam, it is not really useful. Don’t you think ?

Is it possible to my friend’s webcam ?

Thanks for your feedback.

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Thank you I found your demo really helpful.

I was wondering if anyone has had success regarding applying the WebCamTexture to a Plane or a GuiTexture on iOS.

It works on iOS but seems to be flipped and rotated.

I can flip and rotate the pixels in the update but that is making performance very slow.

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I think they have taken away WebCam support in unity4 trial version because all I can see is a logo of unity instead of a web cam picture.