Bleeding-edge browsers have the ability to connect directly to hardware webcams, making it unnecessary to run a Java-based client program to operate your [video spectrometer](/tool/spectrometer). 

To enable the feature in Google Chrome, navigate to [chrome://flags](chrome://flags), scroll down and enable the "MediaStream" entry. You'll have to restart the browser.

###Mobile browsers###

Only one browser (Opera Mobile Beta) currently supports getUserMedia/MediaStream. 

###Flash-based fallback###

A Flash-based video capture system is partially implemented, and