Google introduced a new feature in the Android 14 system, which allows you to use the phone camera as a webcam for a desktop or laptop computer. Technology media Android Police recently tested this feature and believed that compared with Apple’s “continuous camera”, there is still a big gap.
Note: Continuity Camera is a feature launched by Apple that uses the iPhone as a Mac webcam and uses the powerful camera system of the iPhone to achieve effects that ordinary webcams could not achieve in the past.
In the Android 14 system, after the user connects the phone to the PC via a USB data cable, a new “Webcam” option will pop up.
Another requirement is support for USB Video Class (UVC), allowing your phone to act as a webcam on platforms like Windows, Linux, and even macOS.
However, this feature is currently not perfect in Android 14, is limited to 720P, and overall looks blurry. If you plan to use a 2x cropped view, the results will be worse.
There are also no additional improvements to the webcam in Android 14. Apple’s continuous camera has a Center Stage mode that uses AI to automatically detect a person’s position and keep the person in the center of the screen by moving and zooming the lens.
Additionally, in some rare cases, such as when there is no suitable subject in the frame, the live video starts to blur and lose focus.
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