When using the webcam in your flash applications, it can be handy to flip the video object so it acts like a mirror. Many of the flash webcam demos out there does exactly this, usually by setting the scaleX property of the video object to -1. Unfortunately, because the registration point of the video object [...]
I had some time to take a look at what Adobe Labs has been up to and got caught up on Stratus. Stratus is a (currently free) service Adobe provides that enables peer 2 peer communication between multiple instances of the flash player. It uses RTMFP which you can learn more about on Adobe Labs. [...]
Zinc Roe & TVO has just launched Globequest, a game that lets children (and adults) learn more about different places and cultures around the world! This is probably one of the bigger projects I had the opportunity to work on here at Zinc Roe, and I must say, it was an awesome experience. Not only [...]
With the introduction of FLARToolkit and other means of tracking user input through a webcam in flash, I recently had a chance to read up on some of the other ways we can interact with flash applications using a webcam. Camera.activityLevel The most basic way to detect activity through a webcam in flash is by [...]