According to this [GitHub][1] issue, hardware access is not supported yet in WSL:
> Ben Hillis: FUSE is definitely on our backlog, but will be a significant amount of work. Hardware access is another area we will be investigating
> in the future.
All hardware related CLI tools seem to fail (dmesg, lsblk, lsusb returns nothing, /dev is empty...) so it looks like this statement is still valid today.
[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/412
According to [this github issue][1], hardware access is not supported yet in WSL:
> Ben Hillis: Hardware access is another area we will be investigating in the future.
All hardware related CLI tools seem to fail (dmesg, lsblk, lsusb returns nothing, /dev is empty...) so it looks like this statement is still valid today. That explains why you cannot access your camera in OpenCV.
[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/412