We develop a lot of overlay menus for AR and often are relying on still images to simulate a camera feed in the background. When using the Figma Mirror App, it would be amazing to let specific screens gain access to the devices camera and be used as an overlay on top of the camera feed.

As more AR apps get designed, such as devices that use LiDAR, this would be such a great feature!

This would be great! I am currently working on something that uses the camera. Right now I just use a screenshot of the OS Camera View Finder… It works, but does throw me off whenever I’m in that part of the prototype.

I have used the viewfinder screenshot method also. However, even with clear callouts pointing out the placeholder image, there are times where devs still use it as the actual asset. When viewing the prototype, main stakeholders who generally never look at my notes get stuck or are unsure of what to do next.

If the Figma team manages to implement something like this to help represent camera viewfinders, it would put them ahead of the game in my opinion, since none of the top prototyping tools that I know of account for this.

Great suggestion!

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YES!!! Figma folks, for the love OFG pleasssse add this. 😭

+1 here. My team was so used to that functionality when using Framer to build prototypes but one of the biggest missing components for the Figma platform.

We need this, Figma. A package with native Shape like camera, mic, speaker, etcetera.

Yes please 🙏🙏 all of the above!

Still no reply from figma

Still no replies! ):

Hey All,

Sorry for the delayed reply! We already passed this along to our prototyping team for consideration. Be sure to VOTE up top, so the team can accurately gauge what features you’re most interested in! ☝️