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This is a Snapchat desktop application that lets users apply that app’s filters to your webcam. What we’re going to recommend using instead is Snap Camera (opens in new tab). Of course, you might not have one of those machines just lying around, so we’re going to recommend the next best thing. This is a fairly old app, which came pre-installed on some Dell computers back in the day. The software used by Rod Ponton to make himself look like a cat appears to be Live Cam Avatar. This is where we have to take a few extra steps, as more robust filters like Ponton’s cat are not included in Zoom by default. Feel free to reenact the viral cat chat and plead 'not kitty' as you frantically pretend to turn off your funky filter.That’s all well and good, but how do I complete my transformation into a cat, you might say. We encourage you to try out some new avatars to bring some hiss-terical laughs to your next Zoom meeting. Zoom users can masquerade as a kitten by taking advantage of the video-conferencing platform's integration with Snapchat's camera. 'With the intelligent face tracking feature, the avatar can follow the user’s head movements and lipsync anything that is being said instantly,' according to a Dell monitor product page (opens in new tab).Īlthough you can't get Ponton's specific cat avatar via the Live Cam Avatar app, there are other ways that you can acquire a cat filter on Zoom. The now-defunct Live Cam Avatar software, created by a company called Reallusion, was described as an app that allowed users to disguise themselves as movie stars, furry friends and other animated characters. It was very annoying to them and me,' a grateful commenter said. They are just warming up to the idea of using the computers video chat etc.

'Thanks man!!! I had the same problem with the Dell laptop that I got for my parents. The blog post has 20 comments thanking Carsten for giving them guidance on how to remove the 'stupid white cat' from their video chats. 'It turns out that the 'Webcam Avatar' is not Skype-specific, but rather something that gets pre-installed along with all the other crap Dell puts on a laptop.' Apart from not knowing how it had entered his computer in the first place, whatever he did to reset his webcam settings, it would keep reappearing once Skype was restarted,' Carsten wrote. 'A member of my family has for a long time been battling with a 'Webcam Avatar,' a stupid white cat that replaced his video feed in Skype. In 2010, a blog post written by a 'Carsten' titled ' Skype: Remove the Cat (Webcam Avatar)' instructed Dell users how to remove the pesky Live Cam Avatar app. Live Chat Avatar app (Image credit: Dell)įunnily enough, Ponton's cat-avatar battle isn't new.

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