HTML canvas, yes. They use a webgl context (but you can also do similar with a 2d context) containing a video texture (from the mediastream - video/webcam/scree

HTML canvas, yes. They use a webgl context (but you can also do similar with a 2d context) containing a video texture (from the mediastream - video/webcam/screencap/etc). You can find a number of examples by searching "getUserMedia" and "canvas" - for example: https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/getusermedia/canvas/ https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/getusermedia/ca... edit: apologies, here they read the pixel data from the video element, but the principle is the same. One reason for using a canvas intermediary (or even multiple) is to provide multiple sizes, or perform some processing, such as background removal, for example.