Update: It appears that the latest version of Zoom can now use LoomieLive video streams without a downgrade.
Use Avatars in Zoom Meetings – Try This!
If you’re like many of us, you attend Zoom meetings (or other video conferences). Lots of meetings. That’s causing many of us to suffer from “Zoom fatigue.” We end up having to be “on” so that our colleagues and bosses can see us. We also have to deal with a lot of faces in a grid meeting with lots of other people. Trying to see them all and manage our own face can be exhausting.
The idea behind Loom AI, then, is to replace your face with a virtual, 3D avatar of you, a bit like a modern, video-friendly Bitmoji. The benefits are numerous, including maintaining your own grooming (or lack thereof) and personal space outside of work conversations.
Who? Loom AI is the brainchild of a couple of former Hollywood technical visual artists. Co-founder Kiran Bhat won an Oscar in 2017 for Industrial Light and Magic’s facial capture and animation technology, made famous by “bringing back” Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One. Co-founder and CEO Mahesh Ramasubramanian is a longtime DreamWorks Animation veteran.
