[PLUG] Resolved, sort of: Background on Zoom in Linux?

Tim Garton garton.tim at gmail.com
Mon May 25 02:23:27 UTC 2020


I followed this blog post to turn myself into a hologram on the Millennium
Falcon for a zoom meeting last week:

https://elder.dev/posts/open-source-virtual-background/

Cool thing is it will work for any video conferencing app, not just zoom.
Definitely pegged my CPU for the duration though.

On Sun, May 24, 2020, 12:31 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 5/24/20 12:10 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
> >>> Or you can go old school motion picture production:
> >>>
> >>> 1.  large(-ish) poster prints
> >>> 2.  set up projector screen and use 35mm slide projector
> >>>
> >>> You'll have to play with lighting and camera exposures a bit. Movies
> and
> >>> TV shows were done this way LONG before green/blue screens and CGI...or
> >>> even video overlays.
> >> And rear projection. That way I wouldn't have to stare into the light
> >> coming from the projector. However, it would mean building a projection
> >> booth onto the side of the house above the front door, since I'm sitting
> >> in front of an outside wall with no window. That would probably look
> >> weird. :-)
> >>
> > Do a web search for "short throw projector" - not cheap but only need a
> > foot two of space!
> >
> > Or, heck...mount a flat screen LCD TV on the wall of the appropriate
> > size.  Video loop of a nice outdoor scene, and fan to fluff the hair
> > (I'm assuming here - my noggin is pretty threadbare).
>
> I'll think about that one. I've got a modest sized flat screen that I
> could mount on the wall behind me. Probably an unproductive use of my
> time, but what the heck, I'm not being terribly productive with my time
> anyway.
>
> And, while it's not a lot, I do have hair that could be blown about with
> a fan. I could do an oscillating one to make it more, "interesting."
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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