Today I’ll show you how you can use your smartphone as a webcam for your PC, for example for your video conferences with Zoom or Microsoft Teams. You might first ask yourself: why should I use my smartphone as a webcam at all if I already have a webcam? Since the cameras in the newer cell phone simulates are quite powerful, they often have a better slide today than a standard integrated webcam like the one I( and perhaps you, too) have on my laptop. And there is a second application: you can use your smartphone as a document camera by simply attaching it to a tripod and then utilizing it when presenting.Let’s go To use my smartphone as a webcam, I position two apps, one on my PC and then one on my smartphone. I use a Windows computer and an iPhone now, but the whole thing too is collaborating with a Mac or Linux operating system and likewise with an Android smartphone. The app that I have to install on my PC and smartphone is called Iriun and you can find it at iriun.com. A great advantage of the app is that it is completely free and still has everything you need to turn your smartphone into a webcam.With other apps, for example, you often have a resolution limitation, which is not the case with iriun. I is now time first download and install the Iriun app for Windows. As I said, the app is also available for MacOS or the Ubuntu operating system. I’m exploiting Windows so I click Webcam for Windows and the download starts right away. When the enter is downloaded, I will click on it and install the program.To do this, I first have to accept the license agreement. And then ascertain the installing path – here I just use the default directory. Now I can install the program and I am immediately would be interesting to know whether I want to start the program directly. Yes I are intended to. Of course, the signal from the smartphone is still missing because I haven’t installed the app on my iPhone yet.So I be changed to my phone and install the Iriun app there. As I said, the app is also available for Android phones. The fastest course to do it with the iPhone is to type in “iriun” in the search field, then the smartphone notices that there is an app with this name and I can get there with a single tap. Now I download the Iriun Handy App, it takes a moment, and start it.Now I am asked whether I permit the app to use the camera, I say yes – and I am also would be interesting to know whether I want to enable the microphone, I say no, because I merely want to use the picture – if Of course you also want to use the sound via your smartphone microphone, then you can answer yes here. When I open the app now, the picture comes straight from my smartphone. There are a few few gives I can do, I can mirror the image, so here I have the front facing camera and I can switch to the rear-facing camera. In addition, I can turn the flashlight of my smartphone on and off here and I can mirror the image if I crave. That’s all the rectifies , not a great deal, but just about everything you need.Now I’ve installed both apps and I’m ready to go. I been in a position to consider instantly that my cell phone picture is being transferred to the PC. Another important degree: The entire thing merely labor if personal computers and smartphone are logged into the same WiFi network. Otherwise you will not be able to transfer your picture from your smartphone to your computer. Now I going to be able elected the rules and regulations with which I would like to transfer the picture from the smartphone. Here is my tip to just leave it on Automatic, then the app will automatically select the best resolution, i.e. the highest possible resolution without any latency, i.e. a delay in the transfer. So, it’s best not to bother about the resolution at all and left open on automated – unless of course you have very special requirements. And by the way, this is where the Iriun app stands out very positively from other apps, because with other apps the highest solvings are usually blocked and you have to pay to activate them. This is not the case with this app, you investigate, I can go up to 3840 x 2160 pixel resolution here.And in order to use my mobile phone camera for meetings, for example in zoom, all I have to do is select the claim camera now for the camera symbol, namely Iriun. And you can already view the picture from my smartphone now. This is not only possible with zoom, I are also welcome to select the camera in Microsoft Teams or in Google Meet or in my preserve platform for my videos, the program is called OBS. In principle, you can now use this camera signal from your smartphone in any program in which you can integrate a camera signal. And the neat thing is that firstly I have a better illustration than with my standard webcam and furthermore I can move the camera freely because the connection is wireless. Now you know how you can easily use your smartphone as a webcam for your computer.If you liked the video, I’ll be happy, as always, to give you a thumbs up – if you want to see more videos like this, just expressed support for my path or click on the proposed video next door. Stay health and told you next video – your David from neumann.digital ..
