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This breaks down in daylight (brightness shifts due to sun moving/clouds) or whenever anything shifts ever so slightly. Even shadows may make things appear where they shouldn't.

Chroma keying is the stable version of this idea: the single background color of a separately and well lit background removes these issues.

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I did actually tinker with this and other approaches a little.

Also the things in the background get moved around pretty frequently, e.g. what is on the couch. I don't have a dedicated office room

https://www.amazon.com/Webaround-Portable-Webcam-Background-...

I'm in a 1 bedroom apartment with my fiance who is also work from home now, there isn't really space to put a physical green screen behind me.

If you have the space, and good lighting it's a much simpler approach.

It's also less fun though, and I could do this with what I had on hand pretty quickly.

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