Hello and welcome back are you ever wondered how people are
able to join meetings with funny filters and avatars such as this one are you
using zoom and people are using virtual backgrounds ever wondered how that could
be done well let's show you
hi so here I am in zoom and zoom desktop now much like before when I've used face
rig which is a tool that I'm using to create the avatars I'm going in and I'm
going to change the feed in between my webcam and the interface on the
particular application I'm using so what am I going to do first off you're gonna
go to steam you need face rig I bought this 1213 British pounds not much at all
and it's a little bit DLC as well that can add that little bit of extra
hilarity once I had it and downloaded it and we're simply a case of running the
software and here I am this is how this technology is working now as you can see
I've got quite a busy background in my workshop where I do all my work create
these videos and also work for a living so I'm using this particular camera okay
there's one Microsoft LifeCam great it's picking me up you can see the dots are
picking up my eyebrows eyes nose and my mouth my facial expressions so as I move
my eyebrows so does the avatar and that's great
that's how the technology is working it's tracking my face movements now you
can calibrate this at the top for auto click all up also calibrate up the head
post click on this hold perfectly still
okay and that way then when I move my head slightly so there's the avatar do
the same as well for expressions if your expression too slightly out of kilter
and you can also toggle all your based lip-sync on or off so I like a bit a lip
sync on actually I think it's great you can also take snapshots of this as well
good old screenshot and also hide the interface at the top now this is the
most advanced interface you can select that by switching to basic or switch an
interface pull us all so you can select which
avatar you want now this fine gentleman here might not be your cup of tea
however perhaps you might want to do this as a polar bear and why wouldn't
you let's hide that picture-in-picture is a cheeky fellow and there's another
one as well but I like a man with a loud shirt on that is absolutely fantastic
you can also add customizations and props and additional behavior as well
for example you can add a prop and then attach it in some manner should you wish
just that I did a little bit of customization so I sold up weight very
well and good I'm broadcasting this so that by default is off I am broadcasting
this to my camera feeds we're gonna come in as the polar bear we're gonna select
the background we're gonna have a different background if you there from
Team Fortress Halloween same one from Oktoberfest but why not have a polar
bear in a house how cool is that
that's not bad so with that then we're broadcasting back into zoom let's look
at our settings so on to video you can see this is the feed that zoom is
receiving from face Rick and I'm not going to bother touching up the
appearance that takes a little bit too much processing time and besides I'm a
very handsome polar bear I'm not going to bother with virtual background
although with some avatars you have better success than others so a bear in
space is quite good so hey perhaps will - we'll stick with a beer in space that
we were using zooms virtual background facility a facility that Microsoft teams
doesn't have at the moment even though with teams you can blur your background
and we've also got another feed coming in from face rig as well or we can use
the Northern Lights which might be a bit more apt because it's also animated also
a beach as well how cool is this ok without done then what we'll do we'll
start our video in our meeting and there I am I am now joining my meeting as a
polar bear on an animated background that's been put in by zoom so that's not
bad that's quite a bit of fun if I don't say so myself bring fun to your meetings
although things to think about as well you want to make sure that installing
these on work pcs is such and it complies with your IT departments policy
I'm using this in my own personal PC which I can also join meetings with so
as a result of which you know I think it works pretty well let's turn that
virtual background off momentarily the virtual background and then there you go
and that works a little bit better as well not too much actually going on so
again you can record this session manager participants all things that you
could normally do within zoom as well so have some fun with it
if you're a zoom user that's how you impose a filter suppose really a face
rig feed directly into zoom to make you look like a polar bear a president a
hamburger whatever else hope you've enjoyed the video if you have liked and
subscribe let me know in the comment if you're
still using zoom if you're using face rig or if you're gonna use face rig and
how you're gonna prank some of your employees and bring a little bit humor
to what we could really all need a bit of humor during these times thanks for
watching see you soon
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