EpocCam, the app from streaming model Elgato that allows you to repurpose your iPhone as a webcam on your PC or Mac, has been up to date with native help for Snap Lenses augmented actuality filters, Elgato’s parent company Corsair has announced. The performance comes due to a partnership with Snap, who already provides comparable filters natively within the Snapchat app, in addition to with its Snap Camera software. Now the performance is included natively within the EpocCam app.
There are a complete of 15 Snap Lenses for EpocCam, which embody digital backgrounds, digital masks, and customizable filters. “Turn out to be your digital avatar, colorize your hair, work together with animated characters, and far more,” promises Elgato’s website, which additionally notes that the Snap Lenses work with the free version of EpocCam in addition to its $7.99 Pro version. The corporate says it plans so as to add extra filters over time.
Elgato advertises that EpocCam enables you to use your iPhone as a webcam throughout a variety of companies together with Zoom, Groups, and OBS Studio, which suggests these filters ought to have the ability to remodel your look no matter whether or not you’re streaming, or collaborating in an necessary work name. In concept, this might have beforehand been doable through the use of a mix of the EpocCam and Snap Digicam apps, however now it’s all neatly built-in and formally supported in a single piece of software program.
Should you’d like to offer the characteristic a attempt, EpocCam is obtainable as a free download on iOS, although its $7.99 version consists of additional options like with the ability to use your iPhone’s microphone, and in addition removes the software program’s watermark out of your feed. Sadly there’s no signal of an Android model.