[jsilence]

What benefit does this have over a cheaply USB webcam and OBS with the obs-virtualcam plugin?

[txzenwozb]

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

[superhuzza]

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.

[copperx]

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.