My kids missed out on most of the remote schooling thing due to location but they got 8 days earlier this year and made the most of it setting up OBS under linux with this plugin and fed it into MS Teams as a virtual camera.
They made up several scenes they could switch between with subtle animated backgrounds and added chroma keyed meme/animated stuff they could enable during less formal time like end of lessons.
It isn't as good as the closed source offerings from big companies but those companies don't have enough users on Linux to justify developing for the platform so it is a chicken and egg thing. For what it is I was happy with it. With a bit of adjustment it worked suprisingly well in actual use. One of the kids was stuck with an old under powered laptop with integrated graphics and it had no problems at all running this.
If you want to do this stuff properly you obviously need a green screen and good lighting but when you suddenly have an entire family home and online and are trying to juggle access to computers, quickly locating and finding space for multiple green screens and studio lighting isn't an option for regular people.
They made up several scenes they could switch between with subtle animated backgrounds and added chroma keyed meme/animated stuff they could enable during less formal time like end of lessons.
It isn't as good as the closed source offerings from big companies but those companies don't have enough users on Linux to justify developing for the platform so it is a chicken and egg thing. For what it is I was happy with it. With a bit of adjustment it worked suprisingly well in actual use. One of the kids was stuck with an old under powered laptop with integrated graphics and it had no problems at all running this.
If you want to do this stuff properly you obviously need a green screen and good lighting but when you suddenly have an entire family home and online and are trying to juggle access to computers, quickly locating and finding space for multiple green screens and studio lighting isn't an option for regular people.