Whether you’re meeting with Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams, the Snap Camera app lets you use all the familiar filters to make yourself look different. We show how it works.
Snap Camera: Filters During Video Calling
A virtual cat sitting on your head, tying a necktie around your forehead or turning yourself into a giant banana: these are all filters that will sound familiar to Snapchat veterans. All of these filters now make the transition to your Mac with Snap Camera, a free app from the makers of Snapchat.
With the push of a button, you can equip your head with all kinds of accessories during video calling, or even change the entire screen. Note: You need a Mac with macOS 10.13 or later to use the app. The app is also available for Windows. During testing, the app did not work properly in Safari, but it did in Google Chrome.
How to set up Snap Camera
- Download the app from the Snap Camera website (link);
- Close all apps that you use for video calling;
- Wait for the installation to complete and open the Snap Camera app;
- Now open the app in which you are meeting (for example Google Meet);
- Go to the camera settings and change your camera to ‘Snap Camera’.
As soon as you have adapted the camera from your own webcam to Snap Camera in your meeting app, you can choose filters via the accompanying app. These will then automatically appear on your face in the app you are currently video calling in.
If you no longer want to use Snap Camera, go back to the settings and choose your webcam from the list of available devices again. As mentioned, the app is made and released by Snapchat itself. However, we recommend that you only use the app if you actually use the filters. During important or private conversations, it’s smart to just choose your Mac’s default camera for privacy.
Everything about video calling and working from home
In the past year we have worked from home more than ever, especially for this we have written a number of extensive tips and articles to help you with this. So we help you get started with our Microsoft Teams beginner’s guide and Zoom beginner’s guide and we wrote the tips below:
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