How can I trick programs to believe that a recorded video is what is captured from my MacBook Pro camera in realtime? When sitting in daily long google meets meetings the thought struck me if there is a way to record a video that I could loop as my avatar. This way I could make biceps-curls while it looks as if I am sitting staring on my computer?! Not just nice for me to be able to exercise during meetings, also nice for my girlfriend who would get a ripped nerd as BF.
Does anyone have an idea of where I should start to look in to this? All the googling I have tried to find a starting point have rendered nothing as it is getting mixed up with kind of &quot;How to use video in a google meeting&quot;
All help is appreciated!
I would suggest installing OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) from this web site:
https://obsproject.com/
It allows you to create content in a variety of ways, including green screens, etc. In your case it is just a simply video you want playing.
If you have the very latest version of OBS a virtual camera plugin is included with the software. If you have an older version, you can download and install the same OBS Virtual Cam plugin from here:
https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam
When installed you'll have a VirtualCam option in the Tools menu in OBS, where you can start a virtual camera.
Finally in Google Meet select the virtual camera as your camera. Now the output from OBS is transmitted to meeting partners in Google Meet - and from OBS you can control whether the video is a pre-recorded file, your actual web camera, or something entirely else (like a still photo or similar).