did somebody say free Kalidoface 3d was just announced and i'm happy to say that it's one
of the best free v-tubing offerings out there it's also one of the easiest to use and has some hand
tracking all through just a webcam let's check it out Kalidoface 3d is a web-based v-tubing site
that allows you to control a vrm model this means it supports everything from vroid studio so if you
have made your own using that program or have a model that works with other programs like Vseeface face
or luppet it's gonna work here you can upload your own backgrounds stickers gifs and models
and everything is stored locally so you shouldn't need to worry about the website stealing anything
this does however mean that if you open up the site on a computer you've never used before or
you clean your browsing cache all of your settings are reset with all that information out of the way
let's take a look around i've already imported my own model as you can see here and played with
some of the settings first off in the top right hand corner you will have an information tab
this is full of useful tips that explain a lot of the features how and why it was made as well
as giving credit to people who worked on it immediately below the information button is
settings this will open a panel on the left hand side of your screen the first options are face
slash eye tracking and full body face tracking means it will track your blinking and eye movement
where full body will track your arms and hands you can turn each of these settings on or off to
increase or decrease the amount of tracking and resources used by your computer this is a little
heavy on the cpu and gpu usage if you have an older computer i tested it on a 2.9 gigahertz
quad core and it consistently used between 35 and 45 of the cpu even on my primary computer which
has a gtx 3080 it used up to 30 percent of the gpu if you're having problems with performance
while using this website turn one or both of the settings off you can hide the camera panel which
just shows a wireframe model of your face and the hide webcam feed option is turned on by default
so even if you refresh the page no one would see your face if you're worried about that finally you
can change your camera i'm using the logitech brio for this but any webcam should work fairly well
as long as the lighting in your room is decent the third button is the hide controls button it hides
the options down in the bottom right hand corner finally we have the picture in picture button
which creates a small reference window that will be on top of all your other applications if you
would like to see what your model is doing at all times and you're using a full screen application
turn this on i personally found it to be a little in the way so i leave it off before we get into
the really cool settings here are the camera movement options holding left click and moving
the mouse rotates the model holding right quick while moving moves the camera up down left or
right scroll wheel zooms in or out now it's time for the good stuff in the bottom right hand corner
the biggest button turns face tracking on or off if you are having a problem with the website not
detecting your webcam you may need to give it permission to access it this is usually
done the first time you load into the webpage the next option is easily the best call a friend when
you click on this the settings bar opens on the left and you can input a friend's number which
is generated when they open the website to call them their model will then show up in your world
with working voice chat this is by far the coolest part of the website and it's pretty responsive
right now it looks like it will only support one friend at a time but this is still amazing
next is backgrounds clicking on it opens up the sidebar which comes with a few 3d backgrounds as
well as a few mono color presets that you can use there's also a color picker and slider to
make color keying in obs easy you can also drag and drop a background into the settings bar and
it will immediately upload it stickers are the next setting which allow you to place images or
gifs onto your screen right now you simply click the button to make it appear or disappear and you
can only have one copy of it on screen if you want more you'd have to upload the same image
multiple times you can also resize them and drag them around finally we have characters there are
several to choose from that are all defaults from vroid studio but you can upload your own
as long as its format is vrm and is not set up for advanced facial tracking those models will
not work here as previously mentioned all the data is stored locally so you shouldn't have to worry
about anyone being able to steal your model files in the bottom left hand corner we have selfie mode
this just orients the camera angle to always be looking at your face the flip camera button
doesn't seem to do much as you can't click it while in selfie mode overall this program is
awesome it's an amazing step forward for web-based v tubing and more importantly the fact it has
pretty good hand tracking while only using a webcam is reason enough to give it a shot i
know i'm excited to see what the future holds and i hope this developer can continue to innovate on
this idea and take it to newfound territory thanks as always for watching if you enjoyed like and
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