HTML5 WebCam Toy

An example of the cutting edge of HTML5 that uses the initial implementations of the getUserMedia spec. Currently requires Chrome Canary with –enable-media-stream flag enabled. If you don’t have Chrome Canary you can still play around with canvas-based image processor with a canned video stream.


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