{"id":28,"date":"2020-10-08T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:48:51","slug":"snap-camera-virtual-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Snap Camera Virtual Backgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So this one splits the difference. It’s free (yay!), you don’t need an account (yay!), and you don’t need to give them your email address (yay!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s also easy to use, but more processor intensive than ChromaCam or XSplit VCam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’re also at the mercy of whatever lenses someone else has published, unless you want to develop your own. (And if you’re doing that, why not just use OBS Studio?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT. It does do background extraction, and there are greenscreen “lenses” that can be fed into OBS Studio without an actual greenscreen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download Snap Camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Install Snap Camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once it’s running, search for “green screen” lenses. There should be several options. I had good luck with the ones by Lennart, Patrick S, and Ben. (All as of October 8th, 2020. Available lenses may change over time.) The Snap Camera background extraction is a little aggressive, but it does a decent job. (It also drags my system to its knees when I do Snap Camera to OBS Studio to discord, at least with background removal.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus: you can input it straight to discord (or teams, or skype, or zoom, or…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus: search for “pirate” and try out some costumes! (I might be using this for Halloween specifically to have a costume as virtual as everything else this year!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawback: if you want a specific virtual background, if no one’s made a lens with the background you want, you’ll need to either use a greenscreen lens and OBS Studio, or build your own with their Snap Camera Lens builder. (I have not done this. I don’t know how hard it is.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As per usual, feel free to hit me up on the NOC NaNo discord in #tech-support during the month of October if you want to do this and run into problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So this one splits the difference. It’s free (yay!), you don’t need an account (yay!), and you don’t need to give them your email address (yay!). It’s also easy to…<\/p>\n

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