Can you link to the videos you were looking at? With python extension you can create virutal environments using Python: Create environment command and selecting venv. venv is a virtual environment ...

The January 2021 update to the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is out with a short list of new features headed by a data viewer used while debugging.

It appears VS Code does not add one of the paths for Python interpreters in the Conda environment for some strange reason. Running python --version from CMD prompt (with Conda env activated) shows ...