Google Meet will now let you use custom backgrounds on video calls

Desember 31, 2021 Posting Komentar

Google is introducing custom backgrounds for its Meet videoconferencing platform, the company declared in a blog post. If you usage Meet in Google's Chrome browser you should be able to access the feature in Chrome OS as well Eastern Samoa on Windows and Mac laptops and desktops. The feature is "coming soon" to manoeuvrable, Google says.

At that place's no web browser extension needed to activate usance backgrounds; you should comprise able to lend a background image from your own photo collection or from a library of images provided by Google that includes landscapes, nonrepresentational art and (somehow) offices.

Information technology may take equal to a week ahead complete Google Fit users can access the inexperient custom desktop option, the accompany says.

Rival videoconferencing services Microsoft Teams and Soar both already allow the use of customs duty images for confluence backgrounds. The three give birth been adding radical features as more people reckon happening video calls working and school from home during the epidemic; in recent months Meet added a blur effect for meeting backgrounds, and introducing period captioning, blue-light mode, hand-raising and a tile view (the giant Brady Gang screen) that displays up to 49 the great unwashe.

Google integrated Match into Gmail in English hawthorn, adding a sidebar link and making meetings of up to 100 people with no metre limits lendable to anyone with a Google account.

In its one-third-stern earnings call Thursday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Match had had 235 million daily meetings and more than 7.5 billion daily video calls.