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Skype and an application developed by Unity
Hello. Is there any way to have Skype call in a corner or a room with HoloLens and run the app that we have developed in another corner? We want to provide live feed to our user using an external USB camera. We want to see if it is possible and how. Thanks.
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At this time there doesn't appear to be any way to run Skype with another 3rd party holographic app. However, you can write the app in Unity to connect with a web cam and display the video on an object.
Thanks for your reply. Actually, I did build the App that reads the local USB webcam that is connected to the PC by webcam texture and brings it into an object in Unity, but when I deploy it into the HoloLens, I cannot have access into that USB camera. and no picture is shown. Is there any way or a simple example I can bring that picture into the HoloLens?
I can think of two ways to do this right now:
1. you can use the HoloLens camera and capture an image and use it as a texture. There's at least one example on GitHub I can think of that may help if this is what you're after
2. Use a webcam and access the image stream through Unity
It depends on your use case and what you're ultimately trying to achieve.
Thanks. Actually, I am thinking of the second method. Do you know how I can implement it? I am trying to use the Video Player in Unity 5.6 in a 3D cube. When I change the source to "URL", and I paste a sample MP4 into the place beneath it, and I add the following code found in:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Video.VideoPlayer.html
into it, it does not show anything. This is a way that maybe I can solve my problem. If I can stream my webcam into http and give the url to Unity, the problem can be solved I assume. Do you have any idea how I can solve it?