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Turn your camera off for two minutes on a call and someone will ask in the chat if everything's ok. LiveLoop is a small menu bar app for Mac. It adds a camera called "LiveLoop" that you pick once in Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack or FaceTime. You record 5 to 10 seconds of yourself looking at the screen, and after that ⌥⌘L flips between your real camera and the loop. The meeting app just sees a camera that never went off. The clip plays forward then backward with a short crossfade, so there's no jump when it restarts. You can add a bit of fake lag on top so it looks like bad Wi-Fi rather than a paused video. Your mic isn't touched, so if someone asks you something you just unmute and answer. CamLoop already does this, but the hotkeys are in its $4.99/month plan. I wanted something free, so I made one and put the code on GitHub. No account, no analytics, no network requests at all. 1.2 came out this week with a few experimental features, all off by default. The most useful one pings you when someone says your name while you're on the loop. The speech recognition runs on your Mac, nothing is sent anywhere. The hard part was the camera itself. It's a CoreMediaIO system extension, and macOS keeps the old version running until the app asks it to reinstall, so every change to the camera meant a reinstall before I could test it. What doesn't work yet: WhatsApp Desktop doesn't list virtual cameras at all, Chrome and Brave need a full restart before they see it, and if you move around a lot while recording, the loop is obvious. Needs macOS 14 or later. About the video: it's a reconstruction. The webcam footage is AI-generated and the other people on the call are stock clips from Pexels. The app and the code are real. Code and download: github.com/adrbn/liveloop I'm the dev, happy to answer anything. If it breaks on your setup I'd really like to know.   submitted by   /u/GoldianSummer [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/25 05:20:33