[Music] hey everyone it's Justin thank you for watching and welcome to my house that's Justin's house in this video I want to talk to you about avatars in Microsoft teams that's right another Microsoft teams video from Justin in Justin's house I've got up my developer instance of Office 365 and I want to show you how to get to this so you don't have to do it during a meeting what I did if you did something different please leave me a note down in the comments I went to my calendar and I just went to meet now and start meeting and so basically I'm going to start a meeting with myself I'm not going to invite anybody and I can go in here to effects and avatars and I can create my own avatar so I actually haven't done this I've seen some colleagues and even some customers do this during a meeting so so I had this already built during a meeting so I'm going to do this live in front of you and I want to show you how I want to learn in front of you how to build my avatar so there we go I had to wait for that to pop up I need to add this application to my Microsoft teams account so um everything looks good doesn't look like spam or anything and I think I should be able to trust Microsoft Corporation and now it looks like I've got a little uh icon here on the left hand side for Avatar so I'll be able to get back to this which is pretty cool without having to go open a meeting so maybe I could go ahead and close that window where I was starting to meet with myself let's go ahead and close that now that I have the app and it's going to load up here I'll get rid of any dead time so you're only seeing what actually happens all right that's like a ridiculously long amount of time but I think your mileage will vary depending on the computer you were using I am using um old Windows PC because this is my developer account not my work account so hopefully it goes a little bit quicker but here we go get started I can select a based Avatar I'm going to model this after myself I'm really interested in the headgear and what that looks like I need to find a bald guy there we go there's a ball guy he's a little more tan than I am though there's a really white ball guy let's here we go let's see that's what I wish I looked like um with if I had hair so we'll select this one okay yeah that's like what I looked like maybe when I was like 18 19 years old um so we'll use that one and hopefully that brings me in here where I can customize it yeah this is what I've seen and other people were doing so let's customize it um body shape I think I'm okay on body shape let's just see I don't need any Prosthetics skin tone looks good to me it's about I'm I got a little bit of a summer tan going on maybe a little bit of belly but I don't need to show it I just like the way he looks right there so that looks fine my face let's see I can change my eyes I've been told I have brown eyes oh yeah I could do face shape let's see um I guess that's kind of like I don't have I don't have that square of a forehead but I think that's because of his hair um so I'll just leave face shape alone we get the hair here in a second um but eyes oh my gosh the customization on this I don't know my eyes are my eyebrow my eyes I just they are what they are let's see if like nope that's not my eyes um nope that's not them okay I'm seeing the difference now so I just need to play around with this until I see what I think in my eyes you know it's funny like while I'm doing this everybody sees themselves differently than how everybody else sees them so it's be interesting how my interpretation of myself matches what you all see when you see me on YouTube all right I know I got a big tip on my nose let's see that might be a little bit better um I don't see any bigger noses uh let's see here boy it really makes you analyze yourself um no that's not quite right oops not that one um I need a bigger nose there's nothing really like my nose Okay that actually yeah that'll work that's kind of like my nose I got a little bit more hmm we'll leave them that one close enough all right mouth I'm sure let's still go with the mouth ears um I have an earring in does this have earrings there's no accessories oh man that's okay um has hearing aids but uh no no earrings uh interesting so I will be earringless which you can't see them most the time anyways uh we'll do my hair um I have no hair so that should be easy to I just trim it all the way down uh let's go let's go let's go where's the ball people I'd rather just Embrace having hair loss rather than try to pretend like I don't um I didn't see much let's see this might be yeah that's pretty much if you see me without my hat on that's pretty much what I look like I got a little you know something right there but uh we'll go with that and facial hair I don't usually have facial hair so I think we're good there those eyebrows though are not what my eyebrows look like so let's see if we can get a bread or eyebrow look here all right um let's see not much choices on that one but I don't have very they're not that styled uh this is kind of fun to think about yourself so I'm just gonna have to pick something that's not really what I look like because they're not really okay you gave the one eyebrow look um I mean I wish there was like a thinner like I don't have really thick bushy eyebrows but they're not like stylized like that so let's raise my eyebrows real quick let's just go through these I'm gonna go with that one even though they're not that dark we'll go with that one all right so I got that done now my appearance nope I don't need lipstick um I don't need blush I don't need eye shadow that's pretty cool for the for people who want makeup on that's cool that you can add virtual makeup I'll pass on the virtual makeup I've been told by people that swim within the pool that have pretty cool eyelashes but I don't think they would apply here that's only when my face is wet too but you can see my eyelashes face lines I guess I'm a little bit older let's see what our options are here there's some lines I'm not really seeing the difference yet okay I got a forehead line there some more forehead lines and lots of forehead lines okay that's definitely a little bit older than me that might be accurate right there like a yeah okay and wardrobe okay wardrobe uh under layer I'm usually wearing a solid shirt so we'll go with that I don't usually wear outerwear so is there a none option let's go back here go page yep I got a none option okay cool um and actually so the under layer is usually dark for me um I'm wearing black right now so let's see oh I just need to change the color to a darker color there we go that's almost exactly what I'm wearing without the logo um and then headwear oh this is cool I got headwear do I have a backwards hat that'd be really cool if I did I got a frontwards hat it's fine uh let's see if we can stylize it once I put it on so we'll pick um I don't really wear the flat ones we'll pick this one I Can't customize it oh man caps hats what's this cool hats that's just a filter okay yes that's not really where kind of hat that I wear definitely don't wear one of those hmm sometimes I wear those that's a bummer I really wanted to kind of change the color of this one I can't change the color of that one let's see if I could change the color of this one can Okay so let's go black you know I wish I could spin it around can I do what does this do okay that makes it darker okay Smokey black is the color on that one flat brim baseball cap there's this one canvas cap and this is oh there it is backwards baseball cap I got it sweet that is me just a little better looking I'm Gonna Save it and now I've got my avatar built and uh what can I duplicate it create new dismiss okay so I've got my avatar built okay so how do we use this in a meeting so I'm going to go back to my meeting let's go ahead meet now with myself start meeting and I'm gonna hop in the meeting in my avatar I'm gonna turn my avatar on the first time I've ever done this is this kind of behind my head so let's pull this down so you can see it um I don't care about all that for this video video settings virtual camera but I can't where's my avatar turn on video alright that's my OBS Studio and screen capture OBS virtual camera the camera's turned off turned on avatars tenable avatars turned off camera okay so you gotta turn off your camera then you're gonna have access to your avatar there's my avatar that I created oh I could even put it in a background okay this is getting cooler um but he looks different now doesn't he uh leave me a comment down below do you think he looks different when we get into the meeting versus earlier okay so there's a background there's a background I think it's the lips I think the lips are what looks different to me um that was cool that was cool um in the zone oh this looks more like you know mountainous which is usually my themes okay we're gonna join now as that now I'm joining the meeting I've got my avatar set up I'm the only person in the meeting so good we're looking at me and now what I've seen people do in meetings is I don't want spatial audio I've seen them actually do gestures when they react so let's okay let's raise this in hand that's cool let's lower his hand let's um what other reactions can we do um react thumbs up okay there's a thumbs up from Justin's Avatar how about love oh isn't that sweet he did a little heart emoji Applause there we go I can laugh and surprise okay very cool very cool um because I have no audio hooked up I bet it's not picking up um because when I see that it does things when people are reacting but anyways I think I've accomplished what I set out to in this video was to show you how to set up an avatar in Microsoft teams I think it's pretty cool he's a lot better looking than I am so sorry you can't put him on video for you but let's just recap here I went into um teams and I started a meeting but then went into Avatar and now I've got a new app in my teens panel called avatars and I can get to the Avatar Builder through that app this took a little bit of time for me to load as you can see it's taking some time there so your mileage may vary depending on your system but then you might have a nice little Avatar like this so I think this is a really fun thank you Microsoft for creating something cool for us to use I hope you found this video helpful if you did please like Please Subscribe or share with somebody who you think may want to set up an avatar in Microsoft teams so they can be their their real self or not real self I don't know and until next time don't forget to always be learning [Music] [Music] foreign