With Zoom video calls, your computer’s main camera displays you and your surroundings. That’s fine if you want to appear as yourself in your normal office, bedroom, or kitchen. But that’s boring.

Editor’s Note: Recently, an unfortunate lawyer joined a hearing with a cat filter enabled. The poor “cat lawyer” quickly became a viral sensation, which we’ve embedded at the end of this story. Here’s ...

Snap Camera app, which offers fancy filters to Zoom users, is shutting down this January. The parent firm of Snapchat announced that it is killing its camera app for PC and Mac this month. NEW YORK, ...

It was the cat filter seen around the world: Texas lawyer Rod Ponton haplessly trying to appear in a virtual courtroom while his Zoom showed a morose kitten instead of his face. His worried statement ...

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The whole “make your face look like a Pixar/Dreamworks animated character” has been quite popular lately. Who hasn’t had at least one sibling or college friend send them images of themselves looking ...

Americans are already bored with videoconferences. As large parts of the United States come to the end of their second week of quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, chatting for business or ...

With Zoom video calls, your computer’s main camera displays you and your surroundings. That’s fine if you want to appear as yourself in your normal office, bedroom, or kitchen. But that’s boring.