# ai-camera

> A virtual webcam that renders an animated, audio-reactive robot face with real-time shader graphics.

- Status: active
- Started: 2026-02-28
- Category: Creative & Science
- Tags: graphics, python, fun

ai-camera is a virtual webcam that puts an animated robot face on calls instead of mine. It renders the whole thing in real time with a fragment-shader SDF — a single fullscreen quad doing all the drawing — and reacts to audio, so the face moves and emotes as I talk.

It's a playground for GPU graphics and real-time animation dressed up as a genuinely fun party trick. Under the hood it's Python with OpenGL, GLFW, pyvirtualcam, and a pile of shader math, including its own little "beard physics."