For almost a year now, hundreds of thousands of activists have tasted the joy of attending videoconferencing meetings more or less frequently. While most of the time these work meetings are fairly formal, it is possible to relax the atmosphere a bit and have a little laugh-out with colleagues using filters.

Applied in real-time, these augmented reality effects are sometimes directly integrated into applications. This is the case for example with Zoom which already had a fixed number of filters, but which has added a new function, the Studio effect, to allow you to modify certain features of your face.

But it is also possible to go further by configuring a fully dedicated third-party application for filters such as Snap-Camera, Snapchat application, which can be integrated into your meeting software.

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1. Filter Filter During the Meeting

Launch Zoom and create or join a video meeting. At the bottom left of the window, click the drop-down menu associated with the camera icon, and go to Choose a Video Filter.

2. Apply a filter to your video

In the window of Adjustment Which appears on the dedicated section Background and filter, You can select a virtual background (or blur the background) or select a video filter included in the zoom.

Now click on the Studio Effects menu at the bottom of the window to deploy the dedicated pane for the new zoom function. Remember to uncheck the box Apply to all future meetings (To avoid unpleasant surprises), choose your eyebrows, mustache and beard and possibly change a lipstick and the color of each. All the items you select are automatically changed in real-time on your video feed, visible to other meeting participants.

You can cancel these effects at any time by reverting to this same menu to select any in place of the selected menu.

3. Use SnapChat Filter

The native filters given in Zoom are neither native nor particularly successful, it is possible if you want to use SnapChat filters directly in the application. To do this, start by downloading and installing the Snap Camera app on your machine.

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Launch Snap Camera and click on the app presentation screen next. Explore the many filters given in the app and choose the one you want to apply to your face.

If you haven’t already, start the Zoom Meeting, then at the bottom of the screen, click on the drop-down menu associated with the icon The camera And, in the area Choose a camera, Select Snap camera.

Logically, the filter you activated in Snap Camera should automatically reflect on your zoom video. Now you are ready to create a little atmosphere and make your normal meetings a little plan-by-plan during the next weeks of telecommuting.