Thank you for reaching out to the Zoom Developer Forum. It looks like they have a custom chatbot implementation that they were able to invite to a Zoom meeting because their chatbot exposes a virtual webcam and microphone implementation that is part of their chatbot. I’m not positive but my understanding is that they used standard Zoom functionality with their chatbot. If you would like to manipulate raw video and audio data, we do have our new Zoom Fully Customizable SDK.
I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.
For some reasons, I reckon that client-side emulation is not the best for many reasons (“bot- impersonation” issues, etc.)
So my question now, is that if Zoom maybe want to maybe realize in future an upgrade of chatbot app API currently available (https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/build/chatbot-app) allowing the chatbot not only to appear as actor in the text chat, but also having an avatar, managed as an option, part of the official API.
I think that would be a great idea but I’m not aware of anything like this being on our roadmap. We are, however, working to add features that will bring more customizability directly into meetings which could be used for continuity between an in-chat bot and a 3rd party in-meeting bot. If you would like this feature to be considered for a future release, I recommend posting in the #feature-requests category.
