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by kickscondor 2277 days ago
Does anyone know of a tool like this for streaming high-quality photos? I’ve been playing some board games with friends using an iPhone on a mic stand - we couldn’t use video streaming tools because the quality has been all over the place (and you can’t zoom in on the board.) So right now we have a simple app that takes a high-quality photo every few seconds and uploads it to a web server where all the players can view it - their browsers are long-polling for new images.

But it seems that WebRTC could improve this by not requiring the server code. I also just wonder what else there is along these lines.

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This doesn't directly answer your question, but I've shifted all of my board game playing to tabletop simulator and had a lot of success with that. I've been surprised and impressed by the quality and variety of games available as mods in the steam workshop.
Yeah - done some of that too.
I don’t know of one but I really wish there was at least a chromecast app for something like this. Not only isn’t there one but when I checked their API it has a limit of 720p for photos for some reason.