how to easily turn a phone into a webcam?
Today, video calling is even more important than ever because of an endless pandemic. Many users had to buy external webcams or use often poor quality laptop cameras. If you do not have a webcam at home or you want to provide a better image, we will advise you in today’s article. Let’s look at how to turn a mobile phone into a webcam. All you need is a USB cable, phone and computer.
We are talking about the Camo application, which is currently free and works on phones with an operating system Android a iOS and Windows or macOS computers. For our purposes, therefore, an editorial one will suffice OnePlus Nord 2 5G and our desktop iMac 21.5 running through Boot Camp on Windows 10.
How to turn a mobile phone into a webcam via the Camo application?
The whole procedure is very simple and should not take you more than a few minutes of your time. Just find the Camo app on Google Play, then launch and grant the necessary system permissions. Then connect your phone to a computer via a USB cable and download the Camo application to your computer from the official website. Again, just follow the instructions. Install the software, give it permission (if you are installing it on macOS) and run it.
Once you have the application running on your computer, you should see the image from both your phone and the computer. In addition, you can play with the settings so you can you can choose from several different resolutions, you can play with exposure, brightness, white balance or even saturation. There are really a lot of possibilities. The camo is also compatible with more than 40 different applications such as Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Skype. You can choose your default camera directly in these applications. Just tap an option Reincubate Camo.
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Camo — webcam for Mac and PC
You can then rest the phone directly on a computer, book or anything else, but a holder will be more suitable. It should be added that Camo is currently in beta, but during the whole period of use we had no problems with the application and the positive reactions of the application also reap on Google Play. If you are interested in commissioning wirelessly, you can also try it. However, be aware that if you do not have a stable and fast enough connection, your image will be choppy or delayed.
