Separately, Zoom offers filters of its own through its app, though none as realistic as Ponton’s attorney-cat. One commonly used program is Snap Camera, which lets users download all kinds of filters, including one that makes a person appear like a potato (as one woman famously did early in the pandemic). Video filters and virtual backgrounds have exploded in popularity as much of the world’s activities moved online during the pandemic. “While those of us techies were probably cringing watching that video, I’m sure cat lovers everywhere were celebrating.”
CAT ZOOM VIDEO DRIVER
Ponton was likely running an outdated driver which may have held him in cat filter limbo a little too long,” said Glen Robson, chief technology officer at Dell’s client solutions group. Texas-based Dell Technologies says the aging desktop was likely in need of a software update.
Ponton said he’s still trying to untangle the mystery, but he believes the computer’s software and the assistant’s young child are the likeliest culprits. “I think everybody in the world’s seen the video now and heard me trying as I struggled to try to un-cat myself,” he said. But when the hearing began, to his shock and dismay, he was a cat. Ponton says his appearance looked normal on the webcam as he waited to be let into the Zoom hearing in Judge Roy Ferguson’s court. Ponton told The Associated Press that he was using his assistant’s 10-year-old desktop Dell computer when he logged in for a routine civil forfeiture hearing Tuesday in Presidio County, Texas, where he serves as prosecutor.
Texas attorney Rod Ponton’s appearance as a fluffy kitten during an online court hearing provided a moment of levity to a pandemic- and Zoom-fatigued world.īut that specific, adorable filter may be tough to find for anyone looking to replicate the viral moment.
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