Came across this tweet from Matt Cassinelli this morning:
Apple should enable iOS devices as webcams for Macs.
— Matthew Cassinelli (@mattcassinelli) April 19, 2020
People could immediately have high-quality multicam setups with great audio using just their phone, an iPad, and AirPods.
Ultrawide studio setups in your home with a few long cables & a USB hub. Scene switching on Apple Watch
Being able to use your iPhone as a webcam, especially in coronavirus time, is a great idea. It’d be a wonderful add for folks with older Macs, lower quality cameras. And for folks who do live streaming (reporters, or late night talk show hosts), they could do camera to camera cuts, perhaps with different over the shoulder shot images.
There is a way to use your smartphone as a webcam, using a third party app.
There are some downsides to this approach, however (not the least is that the app featured in the Verge story breaks with the latest Zoom release). It’d be so much nicer if Apple opened up an API to make this capability available at the system level.