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GhostFrame
NVIDIA Broadcast for Linux
- Background removal
- Real-time
- System-wide
- Virtual cam
Windows users get background blur and replacement from their graphics vendor. On Linux nobody was going to ship it, because the market does not justify the driver work. GhostFrame runs segmentation on the live stream and then presents itself to the system as an ordinary camera device. That last part is the whole design: every video app already knows how to open a camera, so nothing needs a plugin, an integration or the vendor's cooperation. The constraint was time. Segmentation has to finish inside a frame budget or you are shipping a stutter, and a call with a stutter is worse than a visible bedroom.