I have a corporate Webex account I've tried both Webex Teams and Webex Meetings with on Windows 10. As I work from home, I'd very much like to replace my background and bought my own green screen for that purpose.
However, there are 2 problems with this:
1) Neither Teams nor Meetings support background replacement on my PC
Per both applications, my PC (Intel Core i7 3rd Generation, AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition) doesn't meet the system requirements. The problem is, Zoom does background replacement on the same machine just fine with no performance issues whatsoever. Ergo, Webex's limitation seems a bit ridiculous.
High requirements may seem trivial for enterprise fleets that get refreshed every 3 to 5 years, but they're not reasonable for those of us who work from home and rely on our personal machines that a closer to a decade old. And yes, Intel still provides microcode updates for my CPU, so it's still supported.
As a consequence of this, I've been forced to roll my own Webex background replacement using OBS Virtual Cam. In this setup, OBS does the background replacement, and then a plugin makes the video stream available via a virtual webcam device that any web conferencing solution can then use as a source.
This leads to my 2nd problem:
2) Webex Teams cannot pick up the OBS Virtual Cam stream
I find this odd, because Meetings picked it up just fine. It's also resulted in a professionally embarrassing situation in which, after migrating from Meetings to Teams, I hosted a meeting in the latter, only to find that I couldn't stream any webcam video. True, I probably should've tested it 1st, but I don't think it's out of line to expect Cisco's newer, heavily promoted Teams app to have the same basic functionality as the Meetings app.
Can these 2 issues be addressed?
