I appreciate this is an early-stage project, I'm raising this now to register the use case while priorities are being set. Thank you for all this amazing work you're doing.
Summary:
A live webcam feed embedded as a positioned, resizable element directly within a slide, equivalent to PowerPoint's Cameo feature. I appreciate this is the most complex of the three features I am requesting and likely the longest horizon. I raise it now simply to register the use case early in the project's life.
Use case:
I am a teacher who presents slides while teaching. PowerPoint's Cameo feature allows a live webcam feed to be embedded directly into a slide as a positioned, styled element this can be used with a visualiser. Incredibly valuable to the flow of a lesson for modelling answers and when you have 30+ kids who can't see what you're doing, especially when it's a class that needs to be kept busy and on task, instead of having to pause and sort out tech it just there. Migrating from Windows/PowerPoint to Linux and FOSS is a goal of mine, and Euro-Office is my target replacement.
Current behaviour (OnlyOffice):
- No equivalent to PowerPoint's Cameo feature exists
- There is no way to embed a live camera feed as a slide element
Desired behaviour:
- A Camera/Live Feed element can be inserted into a slide via the Insert menu
- The element is resizable and repositionable like any other slide object
- During slideshow/presentation mode the element displays the host device's webcam feed in real time
- .pptx files containing a Cameo placeholder are recognised and mapped gracefully to the live camera element on open
PowerPoint reference:
Microsoft PowerPoint introduced Cameo in 2021 (Insert → Cameo). It renders the webcam feed as a shaped, styled element during presentation mode.
I appreciate this is an early-stage project, I'm raising this now to register the use case while priorities are being set. Thank you for all this amazing work you're doing.
Summary:
A live webcam feed embedded as a positioned, resizable element directly within a slide, equivalent to PowerPoint's Cameo feature. I appreciate this is the most complex of the three features I am requesting and likely the longest horizon. I raise it now simply to register the use case early in the project's life.
Use case:
I am a teacher who presents slides while teaching. PowerPoint's Cameo feature allows a live webcam feed to be embedded directly into a slide as a positioned, styled element this can be used with a visualiser. Incredibly valuable to the flow of a lesson for modelling answers and when you have 30+ kids who can't see what you're doing, especially when it's a class that needs to be kept busy and on task, instead of having to pause and sort out tech it just there. Migrating from Windows/PowerPoint to Linux and FOSS is a goal of mine, and Euro-Office is my target replacement.
Current behaviour (OnlyOffice):
Desired behaviour:
PowerPoint reference:
Microsoft PowerPoint introduced Cameo in 2021 (Insert → Cameo). It renders the webcam feed as a shaped, styled element during presentation mode.