With video talks becoming more common I believe there is requirement emerging about being able to change the background when showing your face during a video session.
Especially in professional or awkward situations you may want a neutral background or very specific background. Short of turning the video off or using a green screen (who has that at hand?) I’m seeing commercial solutions (e.g. Zoom) providing a background by using a plug-in in the browser. It just replaces your background with a photo of choice and only shows you superimposed onto it. Neat trick.
I thought it would be a nice to have for Talk. Wondered if I’m the only one or we can build a bit of support for this request in this thread to motivate the devs to look into it.
Bump Unfortunately I am no developer, otherwise I would have prob. created this feature myself…
Has anyone been had a chance to look at this or build something like this?
As a freelance consultant, I have to work a lot with MS Teams/Skype etc.
I setting a custom background by now is almost o must, particularly, when “stuck at home”.
Because I am a freelancer, I would prefer promoting nextcloud.
My wife is a psychotherapist and due to current restrictions has to have all sessions online.
Zoom, Skype, Teams are an absolute no-go there is also the occassional high-profile client.
For us the only option was to have something lixe nextcloud in order to be able to control the scurity.
So Pleeeeas someone have a try
great tip!
had a brief look.
While it is chargable, I think it may actually be worthwhile!
Considering, that you can try and test for free, I think I will go for it.
I currently use chromacam. It is quite good but very slow to start up once you connect to the camera.
It does have a few funny features, but realistically, they are (at least for me currently) just gimmicks. Onc eit has loaded it is quite alright, but IMHO I am thinking of sstopping my subscription as I feel that the quality (for the background) has not improved like for instance Teams or Zoom.
As previously said, I am no dev, otherwise I would probably sort this out myself, but from what I know, this can’t be that difficult anymore?
The big issue is, not to have background blurring is almost a reason not to use nowadays.
After all, I don’t want everyone to see the mess in my home office
Unfortunately I am no developer, otherwise I would have prob. created this feature myself…