Durning the last four weeks i was exploring some monocular SLAM projects. At first i use my laptop’s own camera as a image sensor, which is not good enough for capturing high quality pictures. Also, the camera and the screen are on the same side so it’s quite inconvenient to monitoring those SLAM systems with live video input.
I have a DC and an ihpone at hand so i decide to turn them into separate or wireless sensors for my laptop. In this post i’ll focus on the approch of iphone(maybe ipad, too) unter ubuntu 14.04. The basic idea came from this thread

1. Make your iphone as a webcam

‎The application that turns your iPhone into a real webcam! No further software or hardware required.
Just push the 'Start’ button and the transmission of your live video stream is being sent.

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