The simple act of sharing your screen in a natural way during a video call can get quite complicated. Hovercraft is a new Mac app that solves a very specific problem with screen sharing during video calls.
New Mac app is a virtual camera that works with any video calling software
The hovercraft created by Adam Lisagor is very straightforward in terms of what it wants to accomplish.
By default, screen sharing in most video calling apps typically reduces or replaces the video feed in favor of what you’re viewing. While this makes sense in many situations, using a Mac is all about choice and practicality.
That’s where the hovercraft appears in the frame. This is a lightweight utility that provides new camera choices on your Mac.
Using Hovercraft as your camera source for video calls makes it easy to share anything on your screen without your computer’s content taking over your video feed. That’s the important feature. Stay focused during video calls, and shared windows are just an extra layer on mouseover.
The result is a more personal presentation.
Being virtually face-to-face with a video call is a great way to get someone’s attention, but it’s easy to lose focus when your presentation shifts to watching someone use a computer. Additionally, Hovercraft goes even further with useful gesture-based controls, keyboard shortcuts, and more.
For example, you can pinch and grab floating windows to move and resize them like a magician. If the window is a PDF deck, you can use the left and right arrow keys to turn pages without having to mess with the Chrome app. Since its launch, Hovercraft lets you add annotations, type on a floating window, and seamlessly switch between a floating window and a video feed as a large window.
Hovercraft for Mac is free to try, and prices start at $19 per Mac. Check it out now and see if it solves an issue you weren’t aware of.
It’s also a great app to install and try out on your Mac, even if you just want to try out the tutorial and try out the pinch gesture for moving windows. It’s very similar to moving windows in the Apple Vision Pro app, but it works on macOS. This makes sense, since Hovercraft is from Sandwich Vision, makers of Theater for visionOS.
