I think a cheaper solution would probably just be a depth sensing camera. Even a developer targeted Intel RealSense kit is only like $150. Consumer hardware cou

I think a cheaper solution would probably just be a depth sensing camera. Even a developer targeted Intel RealSense kit is only like $150. Consumer hardware could be much cheaper I imagine. Once you have depth information integrated with a camera, then it should be pretty trivial to do background removal. Whereas a 35mm f1.8 from Nikon is like $200 and whatever you mount it to is still going to need to do auto focusing and a bunch of other camera-y stuff to make it accessible to non photo geeks and then you’re going to need an off camera microphone so the entire call isn’t listening to your autofocus motor and...