GoKawiilThe simple act of sharing your screen in a way that feels natural during a video call can be overly complicated. Hovercraft is a new Mac app that solves a very specific problem around screen sharing during video calls.
The new Mac app is a virtual camera that works with any video calling software
Created by Adam Lisagor, Hovercraft is delightfully straightforward in what it wants to achieve.
Screen sharing on most video call apps usually defaults to shrinking or replacing your video feed in favor of what you’re showing. While this makes sense in a lot of contexts, using the Mac is all about choice and utility.
That’s where Hovercraft enters the frame. It’s a lightweight utility that gives you a new camera choice on your Mac.
When using Hovercraft as your camera source on a video call, you can easily share something on your screen without the contents of your computer taking over your video feed. That’s the key feature. You stay in focus during the video call, and whatever window you’re sharing just hovers over as an additional layer.
The result is a more personal presentation.
Being virtually face-to-face on a video call is a great way to hold someone’s attention, but it’s easy to lose focus when the presentation shifts to watching someone use a computer. Plus, Hovercraft goes further with helpful gesture-based controls, keyboard shortcuts, and more.
For example, you can pinch and grab the floating window to move it around or change the size like a magician. If the window is a PDF deck, you can flip through with left and right arrow keys without fiddling with app chrome. Since launching, Hovercraft has also added annotation, typing over a floating window, and seamlessly switching between the floating window and your video feed as the larger window.
Hovercraft for Mac is free to try and priced from $19 for a single Mac. Check it out today and see if it solves a problem you might not have known you had.
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