It started at our kitchen table.
My wife's workspace is in the living area of our home, and her desk faces the kitchen. It's a good spot to work, right up until a call starts. Through the day the family moves through that space, making lunch, grabbing a coffee, heading out the door, and every one of them lands squarely in the background of her webcam. Blurring hid the whole room and still showed the moving shapes. Turning the camera off felt like hiding. I kept thinking there had to be a way to keep her on screen and let everyone else simply go about their day off camera.
So I built one. The first version was JustShowMe: a webcam filter with a live before/after preview and an "Add Face" button to mark yourself as allowed, face detection with YuNet, recognition with SFace, and a Virtual Background mode that learned the room behind you and quietly erased anyone who wasn't on the list. It proved the idea works, real-time face detection, person segmentation, and a background people disappear into, all running live on ordinary hardware.
VeBeGe takes that same pipeline and makes it click and
go. A background service replaces the app you had to open, a virtual
camera stands in for every device you own, and a name in a dropdown
replaces a button you had to remember to press. Point Zoom at the
(VeBeGe) camera once, and it's on for good, so nobody at
home has to tiptoe past your desk again.
