using a second external camera with microsoft teams

Anonymous
2020-04-06T23:34:50+00:00

I am an educator and will be using Microsoft Teams with students.  Is there a way to use a second external camera and share that image with the people in your meeting at the same time as the primary camera on my laptop?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-10-06T14:19:29+00:00

    Thanks, this is helpful, I too would like to run multiple cams at the same time. Our closest fix is a 180 degree camera and another login using a smart phone to the teams meeting as an extra 'person' just to provide an extra camera in the meeting. I have also tried Swvl now as well which is good and works though teams but does not fully resolve my issue!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-06T13:36:14+00:00

    Check into a software called Manycam. I think you can use it to switch and maybe even stream 2 at the same time. It says it works with teams. I wished teams would add a feature so I can run 4 cameras so I can do a full 360 view in 4k. I have not tried this yet to see eif Manycam would work for that.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-07-29T19:52:34+00:00

    @JeffZellen did you successfully use OBS with teams? I had trouble with Teams not accepting the OBS output as camera input. But this is already a while ago.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-07-29T14:11:50+00:00

    That sound pretty cool and I will check it out. Thx

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-07-29T13:45:51+00:00

    If you are brave about using new technology, I would recommend you play with OBS over at the https://obsproject.com/.  It will let you composite a scene to include multiple cameras and allows you to create a "virtual" camera which is the result of your composited scene. You can then use that as your camera for teams. It sounds complicated and can be a bit much, but there are some very cool things you can do with it.

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