Welcome back so as we're all getting pretty used to video conferencing
working from home now in these troubled times the IT user who's using zoom
Google Hangouts Microsoft teams will notice that some of your colleagues are
using filters embellishments to make their image look I think it more
streamlined with filters a little bit zany or different backgrounds let's talk
about different backgrounds am I going to do this using Google Hangouts and
another piece of software so we're all typically familiar with Google Hangouts
and Google meat as it's now being rebranded so if we typically join and
start a meeting typing in a meeting code
what let's join that meeting we can see my camera starting and we can see the
busy background that I've got behind me and that might not be conducive to a
meeting image that I want to portray now you may want to have things like show a
corporate background or something else a little bit more less industrial as like
what I've got going on here well within Google meat at the moment there is no
change the background that's at the moment we've had conversations with
Google lately and they do say that it is on their Google meat roadmap when it's
gonna come out we don't really know but it's gonna come out so what can we do to
help embellish what we're doing here with a different background well let's
take a look one option is to use the snap camera okay if you go to snap
camera dot snapchat comm you're given the option of downloading a third-party
piece of software for all you young Millennials out there snap camera or
snapchat will be very familiar to you whether it's in trend or not that's a
different conversation I'm old so I'm coming to this party and I think things
are great as you can see from the playing video that we've got
on the screen in front of us you can put different embellishments upon yourself
to create a different avatar typically what you do here you click on download
you read the license agreement which I would encourage you to do you make sure
your machine is at the correct specification so that's at least
operating system of Windows 7 sp1 64-bit or newer if you're using the fruit then
Mac OS 10.1 - or newer and a minimum of Intel Core i3 2.5 gigahertz with 4
gigabyte of RAM and use decent graphics card as well and Intel HD graphics 4000
G for 710 or HD Radian 6450 with a resolution of 1280 by 768 or higher well
that's the tech specs about some people another video single who doesn't work
well if your machines not up - it's not gonna work or you can have a debate of a
degraded image read through the license agreement make sure you're happy with it
if you are click on the button type in your email address term like you're not
a robot and download it for PC ok no worries so I've already got this
downloaded and installed putnis going through the install process
it's literally next next next install aware you go you can access the software
by typing in snap the snap camera and that brings up the interface here you
can see I've now got an update to install so let's go ahead and install
that update a whole 88 megabytes will be back well now with the update
installed you can see I've got the snap camera interface now with this interface
let's enlarge it to full screen you can see here's my live feed from my camera
at the top and then you can put in different filters and you can see it's
turning my face into liquid gold just plenty of work from home ones make
myself into a hologram it's quite good with a green screen background I do like
that you know the options for this limitless
make yourself into a potato that quintessential thing and then when you
go you set your filter you can then go into Google Hangouts let's start or join
a meeting let's call it meeting one okay
the camera failure Zoid a codec joining let's join that here here we go you see
the camera won't work simply because we've got snapchat working so let's
close that down turn that off go upstair appear to settings
we change our video away from Microsoft Life camera we select snap camera set
your definition click done start your video and Here I am in Google
Hangouts as a potato that might be your thing some of these filters can be quite
distracting there are cute ones make yourself into a
cloud or there are some quite I think topical ones as well make sure you've
got a mask on your face up to you if you want to use it it could give a little
bit of enjoyment to boring meetings make yourself into a cowboy with that big
desperate dan thick jaw completely up to you
but that's how you use snap camp and Google meat formerly Google Hangouts
dead easy make sure you remember if using on a
works PC that you're not contravening any of your IT departments policies that
the other people on the calls are alright with it it can be distracting is
a bit of fun but it's not appropriate for everything you'll have to install
the snap cam version of the software and also change your settings as we
demonstrate it here as well ok so I have been Riccardo thanks very much for
watching speak to you soon
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