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You know the meetings: 12 people, you're presenting nothing, but the camera has to be on. So you sit there nodding at a screen for 45 minutes, afraid to look away in case someone screenshots you mid-yawn. That pent-up frustration turned into the dumbest useful thing I've built: Veloop , a Chrome extension that works like a loop pedal for your webcam. Hold Right Alt (or a foot pedal that sends keystrokes). It records 10-30 seconds of you listening/nodding. Release. Your webcam feed is now a loop. Go make tea. Press L or Right Command and it crossfades back to live before you've said "sorry, back". The part I'm weirdly proud of: when the loop is running, Veloop releases the raw camera track, so the physical webcam light actually turns OFF. Your laptop isn't filming your room while a loop plays. Everything stays on your machine, no servers. How it works without a virtual camera driver: it intercepts getUserMedia on the meeting page and feeds the site a stream from a hidden canvas compositor instead of your camera. Works in Google Meet and Zoom in the browser. Demo video attached above, longer demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej5xNg_rFyc Free, no account, works offline: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/veloop/apbjpdbilidhpdpfhdhljcnmcjoddpdc Code is open source (MIT) if you want to see how cursed it is: https://github.com/samirpatil2000/veloop What I'm looking for: honest reactions. Is this useful or too weird? Would you use it for all-hands and lectures, or is a virtual background enough? Also curious what loop length feels natural, 10s? 30s?   submitted by   /u/Moist_Tonight_3997 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/20 05:28:47