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ManyCam - software that creates a virtual webcam on Windows and thus allows one to:

- use one physical webcam in multiple apps simultaneously

- switch which physical webcam software is using seamlessly

- add live video effects

- use a static image or video file as the webcam source

(If there is something like this already, then I have missed it!)

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OBS Studio has a plugin that enables virtual webcam output on windows. I’ve used it to create a more reliable webcam output from Blackmagic capture cards, as not all software likes to recognize the included webcam driver.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/

I've been doing a lot of RGBd scanner stuff in the last few years. "Volumetric Video" as some people call it. The Intel RealSense platform has been a boon and the new Kinect with Linux SDK is cool but with some of the things I've been trying to do to build composite scenes from multiple devices or recordings I hit a wall that could be summed up as lack of virtual webcam support. I haven't hacked on OBS much but have used it quite a bit. This looks like a fantastic example to investigate for useful patterns to leverage.

Thanks for sharing!

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