UVC & Color Camera
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This example demonstrates how to use the RGB camera on your OAK device as a UVC webcam. The :ref:`UVC` node allows you to use your OAK device as a regular webcam in applications like OpenCV's :code:`cv2.VideoCapture()`, native camera apps, and more.


.. rubric:: Similar samples:

- :ref:`UVC & Disparity`
- :ref:`UVC & Mono Camera`


Setup
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Code used for testing
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.. code-block:: python

    import cv2

    # Initialize the VideoCapture object to use the default camera (camera index 0 is webcam)
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(1)

    # Check if the camera opened successfully
    if not cap.isOpened():
        print("Error: Could not open camera.")
        exit()

    # Loop to continuously get frames from the camera
    while True:
        ret, frame = cap.read()

        if not ret:
            print("Error: Could not read frame.")
            break

        cv2.imshow('Video Feed', frame)

        if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
            break

    cap.release()
    cv2.destroyAllWindows()



Source code
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.. tabs::

    .. tab:: Python

        Also `available on GitHub <https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-python/blob/main/examples/UVC/uvc_rgb.py>`__

        .. literalinclude:: ../../../../examples/UVC/uvc_rgb.py
           :language: python
           :linenos:

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