Question Webcam in WebGL

Hello!

I'm trying to make a quick game that uses webcam for very basic motion control.
(Using 2019.4, no external plugins)
Everything seems to work fine when it is in Unity Editor mode, but once I build it does not work.

To be more explicit:
When I load the game I have the following code in

Start

:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.         yield return Application.RequestUserAuthorization(UserAuthorization.WebCam);
3.  
4.         if (Application.HasUserAuthorization(UserAuthorization.WebCam))
5.         {
6.             Debug.Log("Number of webcams:" + WebCamTexture.devices.Length);
7.             WebCamDevice device = WebCamTexture.devices[0];
8.             Debug.Log("Device Name :" + device.name);
9.             Debug.Log("webcam found");
10.         }
11.         else
12.         {
13.             Debug.Log("Webcam not found");
14.         }

Then I access the texture using

WebCamDevice activeDevice = WebCamTexture.devices[0];

in the appropriate class.


Once I build and upload (e.g. to simmer.io) I then get the following print outs:

Number of webcams:1
Device Name :device #0
webcam found

But once the game starts, it does not recognize the webcam.
I am definitely missing a step here as chrome/safari is never really asking me if I want to allow camera or not.

Could someone help me understand what I am missing?

 

It seems that the iframe tag requires sandbox = "allow-same-origin". Previously it was possible to access the camera without this attribute, but now it seems that it has become more stringent to protect privacy and it is necessary to set such an attribute.
Therefore, it is necessary to add the sandbox attribute in addition to the allow attribute to services such as swimmer.io.

iframe can camera access sample
https://jsfiddle.net/jib1/hut751ep/

 

Accessing the webcam on webgl is currently not very well supported. Which will very soon change on the next Unity versions.

I made this asset to deal with the current situation, it will still have its own advantages once webcam is properly supported, if you want to check it out.