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You'll have some fun with this as it's somewhat similar to a show we do..
Firstly look into zoom or web rtc as alternatives to Skype ... Skype have a business division and want you to use their services not the home service for what ur wanting to do .. so make constant changes to keep your video hardware off of Skype home vers.
Grabbing ur 2 talents will be simple run the "Skype" program at full screen and feed into ur capture card. But do you want both on a parallel screen or do you want to cut to one or the other if So you'll need two pcs for that. Simple... Until you need them to see and hear one another so now you'll need to feed each of them the others video and audio you can't feed them ur stream output because it'll be delayed and they'll hear their own audio back when talking and with added delay. So along with each others video feed you now need to send a mix-minus of audio to one another so they don't feed back their own audio.
As to hardware if grabbing a pc screen you'll need something with an hdmi input so either a deck link minirecorder card for each source which can then be used by OBS etc as a source. or consider putting an Atem TVS HD in place and connect the PC's to it. That way you can have a 'live' switched program to stream out. Also the HD model has outputs that allow you to handle the return video and mixminus audio. So a feed from each port back into the 'skype' pcs fitted with a minirecorder card will make return video to the two talent ops easier via 'skype'
Whichever way you do it it will definitely take a lot of trial and error to master it.. actually we've been doing this 'show' for a few yrs now and I still don't think we've master it ... As it tends to fight back on some occasions