Hello and welcome back
if you've been in your cisco webex
meeting recently
with a polar bear or a fox or father
christmas or donald trump
maybe you have in that case then the
people you've been having a meeting with
is using a piece of software called face
rig
we're gonna go through where you can get
face rig what it is
how you configure it and how you
configure it with cisco webex
let's talk about face rig so heading on
over to facerig
a quick google will bring up the steam
page and also the webpage facerig.com
and as you can see from the facerig.com
page there's awful lot of people having
much fun and much hilarity as they
change their faces
to that of a fox or a lady or a dragon
or a beef burger or father christmas or
donald trump
things like that as i said it is
available on steam
click on the shop on steam we'll take
you to the steam page
and you can see the price list at the
moment now by face rig
12.99 if you're also a fun a fan
of humble bundle sometimes they run um
some deals as well with the face rig
software that's where i got mine from
at a bit of a reduced price there is
some dlc as well that you can get hold
of
and this dlc does bring
even more fun into the junior
so using this with a tool like webex
and indeed in with webex teams you know
cisco webex and cisco webex teams
couldn't be easier download the software
first
once you've got it downloaded we can go
through the setup
and then get it integrated into webex
now here i am in my very busy workshop
and office area
that i tend to spend an awful lot of my
time in some of this might not be
conducive to what you want to be doing
especially with some video conferencing
as this stands however
a lot of people are working from home
these days people are learning from home
people and gem needs going into the
offices and everyone's spending their
time
collaborating on these tools like google
meet
microsoft teams etc etc etc
and cisco webex and webex teams
so how can you put a little bit of fun
in well we can all change our
backgrounds
and cisco webex can do that as well
there's a number of backgrounds that you
can choose from
which is great however
it can be a bit boring and some work
better than others
this i think is quite a good background
to do and all the other tools as well
are offering the facility to change
your backgrounds teams google has got it
in its pipeline
and also zoom however right why if you
want to go a step further than this
uh and have a different character and
get rid of your face
so we're going to use face rig as i
mentioned
so with that then what do we do well
first off we look at the face rig
software
so as i mentioned face rig is a lot of
avatars that we can go through we're
going to go through the setup and how to
get this
working with your video conferencing
tool of choice in this case
cisco webex so this is the face rig
tool at the top you can see the basic
interface now this is very
important
switch the advanced interface you saw it
there
ui plus click on that you get more
facilities
facilities to record your performance
play the performance back
lip sync quick do a quick auto
calibration of expressions by clicking
this
remaining with a passive expression and
clicking calibrate
resets your expressions also head pose
click on this look at the camera
click calibrate that resets the head
position of your avatar
how is this technology working is
anything funky going on well
a good idea this is showing the picture
in picture now i'm using
my microsoft like life cam but i haven't
got these dots all over my face
the software is doing that and that's
how it's tracking my mouth my eyes
and my eyebrows yeah a bit of eyebrow
movement
close my eyes smile
open my mouth and i can move my head
from side to side
like this whatever if i look down you
can't see my face you can see the dots
disappear
so that's how it's doing it and you can
select your feed here as well
from a list of different feeds that you
can have on your
on your machine so
that's how face rig is doing it and it's
probably good to make sure you check on
their website
so the cameras that are actually
compatible as well
now i'm running this on an i7 i7
3200 um so it's quite an old
processor about four or five years old
it was top of the range when i bought it
but now it's getting degraded
ninth generation the i9s are out my
graphics card's
um a 1070 gtx but i know it does work
on 1050 so but always worthwhile looking
at the specs
before you try it out but steam has got
quite a good refund policy as well
so that's how the software is doing it
great so what do we need to get this
feed
into webex cisco webex well the most
important button for this
is this toggle broadcast at the top this
will send what is on the screen with
face rig
to your video feed now
as you can see cisco webex i haven't got
a video feed there
at the moment and we'll put that just
over there
so i'm going to click on broadcast at
the top there
that's now broadcasting to my video feed
into cisco webex
gonna select my feed my face rig virtual
camera
very important to select your feed and
then
start video we'll change the background
and take the background off
some reason cisco webex doesn't handle
the background you can just see it
trying to break through a little bit
there click on then use the backgrounds
that are coming through with face rig
and you can see the polar bear
and then you can also do all the other
stuff like connect to a video system
as well if you've got any of them
knocking around where you can cast it to
your video system
um you can also
let's have a look now
turn your video off then start the
meeting
so you know it is quite robust this is
going
from here to cisco and out so
it works so that's good stuff no i think
it's good stuff let's just pop the
meeting
on end there and what we'll do we'll go
back into the foyer
section of things
right so i haven't started the meeting
yet
i know exactly what my feed is so say
you're not too
fast about polar bears well
as i mentioned face rig has a number of
avatars that come free with it
not only they come free there are also
some dlc
on steam that you can download that are
also free
somewhere have you got to pay for but
those aren't that expensive
to select your avatar click on the
avatar
on the right hand side and you can see a
long list of avatars
and customization props that you can add
on as well uh whether that be
you know um adding in some props here
flying helmets lights
load avatar options save avatar options
there's a number of things you can do
what behavior you want you can customize
this to your heart's content
but let's face it you got a lot here so
a hell of a lot here
all the dlc that i've got a bit of
donald trump
which is a really good likeness i think
to be honest bit of hillary
well it looks like hillary if you ask me
and then you got the polar bear
you can change his shirt
let's have a look for
for props add a prop
can we put something in like i don't
know
glasses attach
and then you can then
move those and scale them free move
those glasses around
should you want to put a hat on and
there's my polar bear wearing a witch's
hat
there's the glasses and again you can
free move
these glasses around should you want to
put them on scale put them on his face
reset all there's some glasses up there
so let's get rid of that
that was quite good though wasn't it
attached to the head and then move it
around when you can
anyway you can put on props if you want
to and the behavior like i mentioned
but back to the avatar gallery there are
some classics here
uh there really are some classics
and by scrolling up and down you can
pick some quite scary ones
perhaps not for children or things from
team fortress
you know which are quite nicely animated
you know i do like these as well
and something special especially for
halloween
so that was changing the avatar over
couldn't be easier and like i mentioned
if you go onto the web and look for the
dlc on
on steam you can see there's a load of
dlc you can do
and they give you some good examples as
well i mean i quite like
uh the halloween ones you can be
pewdiepie for free
if you want to uh octodad things from
starbound a lot of free
some you've got to pay for but they're
only like 3.99 british pounds
five dollars something like that so it's
not too much of a stretch
pretty good for example you know if
you're a teacher and you're teaching
near halloween
or for example you're teaching um about
thanksgiving do it as a do it as a
turkey
let's just get our our tracking
on the go here the turkey is off the
other side of the screen
and you've also got you know the
velociraptor as well look
i'm going to teach us dinosaurs lots in
there lots of things you can do
but even just joining some meetings as
well in school
what a piece of software to um to
impress your friends with
and your teacher teachers and if you're
in work check your social collaboration
policy
whether you can install anything on your
work pc but
could inject a little bit of humor into
those non-important team meetings
as well or just use it with family and
friends
so i think that looks like colonel
sanders if you
ask me but there you are uh anyway not
to worry
let's go for one of my favorites it's
the frog there you go i got a frog there
look smoking a bubbled pipe
you know it's great so that's changing
the avatar what about
other options well you've got other
options like i mentioned to record your
performance so you can put it into your
video software of choice
not just cisco webex or zoom or teams
or google meet uh you can also change
your environment
so you can put a pure green screen on
which is quite good
uh or you can select from all these
pre-loaded ones
or you can add your own which is also
very good
as well um let's see my frog is now
in a very sort of cartoony backdrop
and then when we go into cisco you can
see that's changed
and that's what people be seeing in the
meeting and it's tracking my mouth
and everything lots of other options as
well you can do
um you can check your advanced tracking
configuration
let's look at that you know how much cpu
time it's using
uh you can really get into the
resolutions
of this um even up the resolution there
the 720 that's also obviously going to
increase your bandwidth
usage that you use so be very mindful
of this also
um you got a karaoke panel put some
songs in there so
sing along to the songs and then
obviously record your performance
or you can put voice effects like adding
a voice effect
echo or what have you onto this echoes
and
other ones as well you can add
additional effects
let's get rid of those okay
text and an image overlay so you can add
an image
let's look at the pictures folder
put a bit of collaboration kernel on it
and i can place that image as a server
watermark and i can change
the size of this as well and again all
that is transferable
into cisco webex as well once you start
using the overlay
and things start getting back to normal
some of the alterations you may have to
do that toggle with the broadcast
to get things to translate through
if anything does freeze always stop the
video
and then start the video all depending
on what you're doing
with the webcam if anything like this
ever does happen
you start to lose your feed toggle the
broadcast off
shut down the face rig restart it
everything will start up fine so thanks
very much for watching
that was how to get facerig working with
cisco webex and indeed then
cisco webex teams i've got videos on how
to get it working on
zoom microsoft teams and google meet
and a couple of other varieties as well
perhaps using snapcam
thanks very much for watching see you
soon
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