[Feature]: Do we have a plan to develop a virtual camera driver?

[tedestar]

Is the feature related to a "problem"?

As we can see, the team has developed virtual display driver and virtual audio driver, and may I ask, can there be a plan to develop a virtual camera, using technology like avstream?

Your suggestion

Develop virtual camera driver for the virtual family.

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[zjoasan]

No guarantees, but certainly an interesting suggestion. I will try to look into, but what is going to be recorded? shaders? background replacement/greenscreen on a real camera set as input? Give some ideas and I'll try to look into this in June.

[tedestar]

No guarantees, but certainly an interesting suggestion. I will try to look into, but what is going to be recorded? shaders? background replacement/greenscreen on a real camera set as input? Give some ideas and I'll try to look into this in June.

Thank you for your reply, it's exciting!

It's just like virtual audio driver and can be used as virtual usb camera device, we can make it like a real camera. A lot of applications need a camera as input stream, including video chat, video live stream etc.

We can use a video stream or video file as input, let the application take it as camera content. Then the remote virtual machine can be used as video chat & live stream etc and the actual content can be customized.

I figured out that avstream which is part of WDK, is suitable for this.There is a repo which is ou-of-date: https://github.com/robot9706/VirtualCameraDriver.

I think it's a important member for our virtual family, as we have virtual monitor, virtual microphone, virtual speaker, virtual camera, it will make the virtual machine to be a real machine with full capability.

Feel free to ask me any question.