[resolved] Allow virtual cameras

When I use a camera in the Windows 11 VM, I want to be able to use one of my macOS virtual cameras (for example OBS), so that use it instead of the direct camera.

A more detailed example: I have software that improves my experience while on a Windows Teams call. That software only runs on macOS. It creates a virtual camera that I can then use in Teams or Zoom on my Mac. Unfortunately I cannot select that virtual camera within the VM -- only the camera itself -- to use on a Teams call that's running on my Windows 11 VM. I know the "solution" is to just use Teams on my Mac, but this isn't possible in this situation.

So, my suggestion is to allow the selection of a macOS virtual camera in addition to the actual cameras that we can now select.

 

The integration is live in Parallels Desktop 20.3.0

 

I just updated PD to 20.3.0 and updated the tools which required a restart of my VM. OBS works as advertised, but it's the only one. I was using OBS as an example in my request, but upon testing other virtual cameras such as BOOM, it doesn't see anything but OBS. I only see my physically-connected Insta360 Link camera, iPhone camera, and OBS virtual camera. None of my other virtual cameras.

So now if I want to use BOOM (or something else), I have to launch OBS and add BOOM's virtual camera to OBS and have two pieces of software running. OBS takes more to set up so I would prefer that PD supports *any* virtual camera not just one. Thank you for listening and fixing this.