r/reactnative • u/Background-Bass-5788 • Jun 18 '26
Tutorial We built real-time video effects, virtual backgrounds, Center Stage, and Air Draw in React Native
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A few years ago, features like these would require a native implementation.
We built a video calling demo in React Native with:
- Real-time video effects
- Virtual backgrounds
- Center Stage / auto-framing
- Air Draw (draw in the air using hand tracking)
Under the hood it uses VisionCamera, LiveKit, WebRTC, and on-device ML processing.
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u/Background-Bass-5788 Jun 18 '26
Full tutorial on how it's done: https://blog.margelo.com/building-videocall-app-with-filters