Accessing Smartphone And Laptop Cameras In The Web With Javascript
Hello! Today I’m going to show you how to access the built-in cameras in-browser, on computers and mobile devices using Javascript.
In this series, I will show you how to set up a simple HTML page that accesses the front-facing camera, runs MediaPipe Facemesh to detect facial keypoints, and then shows a livestream using the detection features.
This post in particular will show you how to:
- Properly access a device’s camera through the Javascript
MediaDevices
interface…