Magic Camera

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Magic Camera
Developer(s) ShiningMorning Soft
Initial release20 March 2006;19 years ago (2006-03-20)
Stable release
8.8.5 / 8 May 2015;10 years ago (2015-05-08)
Written in C++
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Available inEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, Brazilian/European Portuguese, Danish, Spanish, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian
Type Webcam Software, Instant Messenger
License Proprietary
Website www.shiningmorning.com

Magic Camera, sometimes known as Magic Camera virtual webcam, is an application for Microsoft Windows to generate virtual webcams on Windows, which can be used to stream files/screens as webcam, or create webcam effects on physical webcam. Since the first release of Magic Camera on 20 March 2006, its author ShiningMorning Soft has maintained and kept the product shareware.

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Many Instant Messengers can only read webcams in video chats, however, Magic Camera removes this limitation, it supports many hardware, such as (HD) webcams, digital cameras, TV/video capture cards, DVs, camcorders, IP cameras (DirectShow), add visual effects on the video, and then stream the videos to instant messengers.

Features

Magic Camera feature lists. [1]

History

From May 2009, MagicCamera supports 64bit Windows 7 with its Kernel mode webcam device driver. [3]

In 2009, Magazine Chip wrote article to introduce Magic Camera webcam effects. [4]

In December 2010, news.NewHua.com, one of the largest online IT websites in China, wrote reviews on MagicCamera to recommend it to China QQ users. [5]

In 2011, data from CNet reported that Magic Camera has about 20k+ downloads/week and 1.4 million downloads in total. It is listed in top 10 popular software on CNet communication category many times. [6]

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