Help troubleshooting capacitor camera per tutorial

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Working through the docs basic tutorial " Your First Ionic App: Vue" and I just can’t get the camera (inbuilt, notebook PC) to work.

I have tested the camera using a cam program and also in the browser (chrome) using webcamtests and all works fine.

I get no error just the following screen:
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I have tried various tweaks to this code (straight from the tutorial) without any luck:

import {
  Plugins, CameraResultType, CameraSource, CameraDirection, CameraPhoto
} from "@capacitor/core"

export function usePhotoGallery() {
  const { Camera } = Plugins;

  const takePhoto = async () => {
    const cameraPhoto = await Camera.getPhoto({
      // direction: CameraDirection.Rear, // did not help
      resultType: CameraResultType.Uri,
      source: CameraSource.Camera,
      quality: 50
    })
  }

  return {
    takePhoto
  }
}

Ionic:

Ionic CLI : 6.12.4 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@ionic/cli)
Ionic Framework : @ionic/vue 5.6.0

Capacitor:

Capacitor CLI : 2.4.7
@capacitor/core : 2.4.7

Utility:

cordova-res : 0.15.3
native-run : 1.3.0

System:

NodeJS : v14.3.0 (/usr/local/bin/node)
npm : 7.5.4
OS : Linux 5.11

I thought that the web browser is supposed to ask for permission to use the webcam, but this does not happen in any of the 3 browsers I have tried with the tutorial code (Firefox, Chrome and Falkon). When hitting the webcamtests site however, I was prompted to grant permission on the camera.

I am unsure how to troubleshoot this further, does anyone have any ideas?