have you noticed lately that people in your zoom meetings have changed into potatoes
or some other comedy character have you noticed your friends when you get together over zoom
have something else about them well if so they're probably using
snapcam filters by snapchat and integrating that into zoom we'll show you how to do it
so you can turn those boring meetings into something a bit more funny
the first things you want to do is make sure you've got zoom installed this process also
works with the web version of the tool um i prefer to use the desktop client i'm using this on pc
but it's up to you if you're gonna use the web browser use the web browser
so you're gonna install zoom by going to zoom dot us slash download
now here you're gonna find loads of different things in their download center the zoom client
for meetings this is the pc version i'm talking about uh i'll install a client to your pc you've
got all the different plugins as well so you can integrate zoom meetings into outlook ibm notes
and other extensions for browsers as well and also you can see you can get zoom on android and on ios
okay so make sure you've got your client
downloaded next up you're going to want to get yourself over to snapcamera.snapchat.com yes
snapcamera is part of the snapchat family and allows you to put these filters
over your webcam over your video feed which is what we're going to be doing in regards to
zoom so as you can see you can put all different embellishments i've gone for the quintessential
potato because i think it's quite funny but you can certainly choose others and we'll come on to
that a little bit later on in the video so there's a client you can go and download and you can see
there is the download link for the snap camera client clicking on that takes you
to their download area where you've got a license agreement which i would encourage you to look at
it gives you the minimum operating specifications for the tool so the minimum hardware core
is an intel i3 2.5 gigahertz or an amd fx 4300 2.6 gigahertz um i'm using an i7 microsoft
live cam and i've got a decent graphics card in there for the gaming so as i said have a good
look through the camera license agreement which you should always do before installing software
if you're happy with the license agreement click i have read the privacy policy enter your email
select that you're not a robot perhaps you are i don't know but if you're not select you're not a
robot and then download the application that'll download to your pc and go through the wizard as
normal to set it up once you've done that you may be lucky enough to have it detect your webcam
that's on your pc if not this is what you have to do in the top right hand side you'll see
the little cog wheel we're all familiar with this this is settings click on that
and here at the top where you see snap camera settings you can select your video feed now i've
got quite a few things on there from different avatar creation programs like animes face rig and
chroma cam however we're after the microsoft live camera this is the camera that i have on my pc for
you it might be different it might be an inbuilt laptop uh camera as well all these things tend
to work on those as well if your machine hits the required specification so select your computer's
main webcam from the download section right once you've done that brilliant click on back
and then you'll be given the option to look through
several avatars created by the the community and you can see we've got quite a few avatars here um
or you can go through all the different categories as well and get yourself some additional avatars
or effects or filters put onto your effect once you've got this working and again you
can select through all of these uh to find something i don't know whether it's comedy
you can see it's changed my face already make yourself into french fries from mcdonald's
hey that's quite good or even alien how much fun can you have with this in class
now if you're using this in work be aware that you may have to contravene your workers policy right
your workers policy and standards of business conduct in work sometimes prevent you from
installing applications such as this onto work pcs but if you're using it on your own device then hey
do what you want so just be just be wary about that sort of thing so
we're going to go for ourselves as having a burger and there's a new nice new burger
what we're going to do now is we're going to come out of snap camera
we're then going to go into the zoomer meeting and here's my zoom client
what i'm going to do now is i'm going to set the feed that it reflects my avatar and not my face so
into settings down to video make sure your camera is set to the snap camera not life cam right
snap camera and what your colleagues or friends from school or classmates
or whatever we'll see will be on the screen once you've set that all you have to do is
effectively return to your meeting so what i'll do i'll end this meeting here so we can see
new meeting there's my meeting into full screen and there you are you have changed yourself
into a beef burger or into a potato now if you're not happy with that particular avatar you can zip
over to snapcam picture in picture and dynamically change the feed there you are and that's reflected
in my zoom meeting as well i am now a hand or i can be an egyptian statue which i think is really
good it's one of the best ones i've seen to be honest or alternatively you can become a piece of
watermelon all this is perfectly up to you but it does inject a little bit of humor and comedy into
your meetings if you're using it for work make sure you're there for like-minded individuals and
make sure you're not contravening your standards of business conduct and what you can install on
your pcs if you're using it for school again make sure your teacher's cool with that can be a little
bit disruptive but hey we're all about fun and throwing caution to the wind thanks for watching
hope you have fun with snapcam and zoom to make those meetings a little less boring see you soon
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