Hello and welcome back if you've been in your cisco webex
meeting recently with a polar bear or a fox or father
christmas or donald trump maybe you have in that case then the
people you've been having a meeting with is using a piece of software called face
rig we're gonna go through where you can get
face rig what it is how you configure it and how you
configure it with cisco webex
let's talk about face rig so heading on over to facerig
a quick google will bring up the steam page and also the webpage facerig.com
and as you can see from the facerig.com page there's awful lot of people having
much fun and much hilarity as they change their faces
to that of a fox or a lady or a dragon or a beef burger or father christmas or
donald trump things like that as i said it is
available on steam click on the shop on steam we'll take
you to the steam page and you can see the price list at the
moment now by face rig 12.99 if you're also a fun a fan
of humble bundle sometimes they run um some deals as well with the face rig
software that's where i got mine from at a bit of a reduced price there is
some dlc as well that you can get hold of
and this dlc does bring even more fun into the junior
so using this with a tool like webex and indeed in with webex teams you know
cisco webex and cisco webex teams couldn't be easier download the software
first
once you've got it downloaded we can go through the setup
and then get it integrated into webex now here i am in my very busy workshop
and office area that i tend to spend an awful lot of my
time in some of this might not be conducive to what you want to be doing
especially with some video conferencing as this stands however
a lot of people are working from home these days people are learning from home
people and gem needs going into the offices and everyone's spending their
time collaborating on these tools like google
meet microsoft teams etc etc etc
and cisco webex and webex teams so how can you put a little bit of fun
in well we can all change our backgrounds
and cisco webex can do that as well there's a number of backgrounds that you
can choose from which is great however
it can be a bit boring and some work better than others
this i think is quite a good background to do and all the other tools as well
are offering the facility to change your backgrounds teams google has got it
in its pipeline and also zoom however right why if you
want to go a step further than this uh and have a different character and
get rid of your face so we're going to use face rig as i
mentioned so with that then what do we do well
first off we look at the face rig software
so as i mentioned face rig is a lot of avatars that we can go through we're
going to go through the setup and how to get this
working with your video conferencing tool of choice in this case
cisco webex so this is the face rig tool at the top you can see the basic
interface now this is very important
switch the advanced interface you saw it there
ui plus click on that you get more facilities
facilities to record your performance play the performance back
lip sync quick do a quick auto calibration of expressions by clicking
this remaining with a passive expression and
clicking calibrate resets your expressions also head pose
click on this look at the camera click calibrate that resets the head
position of your avatar how is this technology working is
anything funky going on well a good idea this is showing the picture
in picture now i'm using
my microsoft like life cam but i haven't got these dots all over my face
the software is doing that and that's how it's tracking my mouth my eyes
and my eyebrows yeah a bit of eyebrow movement
close my eyes smile open my mouth and i can move my head
from side to side like this whatever if i look down you
can't see my face you can see the dots disappear
so that's how it's doing it and you can select your feed here as well
from a list of different feeds that you can have on your
on your machine so that's how face rig is doing it and it's
probably good to make sure you check on their website
so the cameras that are actually compatible as well
now i'm running this on an i7 i7 3200 um so it's quite an old
processor about four or five years old it was top of the range when i bought it
but now it's getting degraded ninth generation the i9s are out my
graphics card's um a 1070 gtx but i know it does work
on 1050 so but always worthwhile looking at the specs
before you try it out but steam has got quite a good refund policy as well
so that's how the software is doing it great so what do we need to get this
feed into webex cisco webex well the most
important button for this is this toggle broadcast at the top this
will send what is on the screen with face rig
to your video feed now as you can see cisco webex i haven't got
a video feed there at the moment and we'll put that just
over there so i'm going to click on broadcast at
the top there that's now broadcasting to my video feed
into cisco webex gonna select my feed my face rig virtual
camera very important to select your feed and
then start video we'll change the background
and take the background off some reason cisco webex doesn't handle
the background you can just see it trying to break through a little bit
there click on then use the backgrounds that are coming through with face rig
and you can see the polar bear and then you can also do all the other
stuff like connect to a video system as well if you've got any of them
knocking around where you can cast it to your video system
um you can also let's have a look now
turn your video off then start the meeting
so you know it is quite robust this is going
from here to cisco and out so it works so that's good stuff no i think
it's good stuff let's just pop the meeting
on end there and what we'll do we'll go back into the foyer
section of things
right so i haven't started the meeting yet
i know exactly what my feed is so say you're not too
fast about polar bears well as i mentioned face rig has a number of
avatars that come free with it not only they come free there are also
some dlc on steam that you can download that are
also free somewhere have you got to pay for but
those aren't that expensive to select your avatar click on the
avatar on the right hand side and you can see a
long list of avatars and customization props that you can add
on as well uh whether that be you know um adding in some props here
flying helmets lights load avatar options save avatar options
there's a number of things you can do what behavior you want you can customize
this to your heart's content but let's face it you got a lot here so
a hell of a lot here all the dlc that i've got a bit of
donald trump
which is a really good likeness i think to be honest bit of hillary
well it looks like hillary if you ask me and then you got the polar bear
you can change his shirt let's have a look for
for props add a prop can we put something in like i don't
know
glasses attach and then you can then
move those and scale them free move those glasses around
should you want to put a hat on and there's my polar bear wearing a witch's
hat there's the glasses and again you can
free move these glasses around should you want to
put them on scale put them on his face reset all there's some glasses up there
so let's get rid of that that was quite good though wasn't it
attached to the head and then move it around when you can
anyway you can put on props if you want to and the behavior like i mentioned
but back to the avatar gallery there are some classics here
uh there really are some classics and by scrolling up and down you can
pick some quite scary ones perhaps not for children or things from
team fortress you know which are quite nicely animated
you know i do like these as well and something special especially for
halloween
so that was changing the avatar over couldn't be easier and like i mentioned
if you go onto the web and look for the dlc on
on steam you can see there's a load of dlc you can do
and they give you some good examples as well i mean i quite like
uh the halloween ones you can be pewdiepie for free
if you want to uh octodad things from starbound a lot of free
some you've got to pay for but they're only like 3.99 british pounds
five dollars something like that so it's not too much of a stretch
pretty good for example you know if you're a teacher and you're teaching
near halloween or for example you're teaching um about
thanksgiving do it as a do it as a turkey
let's just get our our tracking on the go here the turkey is off the
other side of the screen and you've also got you know the
velociraptor as well look i'm going to teach us dinosaurs lots in
there lots of things you can do but even just joining some meetings as
well in school
what a piece of software to um to impress your friends with
and your teacher teachers and if you're in work check your social collaboration
policy whether you can install anything on your
work pc but could inject a little bit of humor into
those non-important team meetings as well or just use it with family and
friends so i think that looks like colonel
sanders if you ask me but there you are uh anyway not
to worry let's go for one of my favorites it's
the frog there you go i got a frog there look smoking a bubbled pipe
you know it's great so that's changing the avatar what about
other options well you've got other options like i mentioned to record your
performance so you can put it into your video software of choice
not just cisco webex or zoom or teams or google meet uh you can also change
your environment so you can put a pure green screen on
which is quite good uh or you can select from all these
pre-loaded ones or you can add your own which is also
very good as well um let's see my frog is now
in a very sort of cartoony backdrop and then when we go into cisco you can
see that's changed and that's what people be seeing in the
meeting and it's tracking my mouth and everything lots of other options as
well you can do um you can check your advanced tracking
configuration let's look at that you know how much cpu
time it's using uh you can really get into the
resolutions of this um even up the resolution there
the 720 that's also obviously going to increase your bandwidth
usage that you use so be very mindful of this also
um you got a karaoke panel put some songs in there so
sing along to the songs and then obviously record your performance
or you can put voice effects like adding a voice effect
echo or what have you onto this echoes and
other ones as well you can add additional effects
let's get rid of those okay text and an image overlay so you can add
an image
let's look at the pictures folder put a bit of collaboration kernel on it
and i can place that image as a server watermark and i can change
the size of this as well and again all that is transferable
into cisco webex as well once you start using the overlay
and things start getting back to normal some of the alterations you may have to
do that toggle with the broadcast to get things to translate through
if anything does freeze always stop the video
and then start the video all depending on what you're doing
with the webcam if anything like this ever does happen
you start to lose your feed toggle the broadcast off
shut down the face rig restart it everything will start up fine so thanks
very much for watching that was how to get facerig working with
cisco webex and indeed then cisco webex teams i've got videos on how
to get it working on zoom microsoft teams and google meet
and a couple of other varieties as well perhaps using snapcam
thanks very much for watching see you
soon
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