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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
