Building a Video Chat App, Part 2 – Accessing Cameras

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On my Twitch channel we’re continuing to build our video chat application on Azure Communication Services (ACS). For today’s post, we’re going to look at the next major milestone, accessing your camera and microphone. How Browsers Access Devices We’re going to use the ACS SDK to do this, but before we get there let’s first understand how we access cameras and microphones in the browser. Browsers have had this functionality for a while now, it came about as a need for the WebRTC specification, since that allows you to do what we’re doing, run a video stream through the browser, and it works using the navigator.

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