Untidy home offices, living rooms, and even bedrooms have become a familiar sight in the background of many a Google Meet. The luxury of looking professional seemed just that, a luxury. In the past few months, since this video calling app became the daily lifeblood of our lives, we could only hope for a positive change that would alleviate, if not improve, our current situations. Thankfully, Google offers a special background blur feature that focuses only on you and blurs out the rest of your background. With this feature enabled, Meet will automatically identify you as the subject of the frame and blur everything else.
Background blur in Google Meet is here!
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This is what the Blur Background feature looks like in action.
Blurring your surroundings in Google Meet is a pretty simple process on Android and iOS, but you’ll first need to make sure you have a compatible device. To use Background Blur in Google Meet, you’ll need: