Program to pipe screen capture into virtual camera device

I'm looking for a program that could register a virtual camera with the operating system, record my entire desktop, and pipe the output of my desktop into the virtual webcame device. THis would allow me to share my screen with any app that used camera, such as google chat.

I believe that for most apps, you can just copy the .app file from /Applications/ to wherever you want-it may break some updating functionality, but that's the only way to have it in a different location.
Good luck!
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