{"id":3825,"date":"2018-12-06T10:49:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2018-12-06T11:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:03:40","slug":"did-you-know-you-can-blur-the-background-when-joining-microsoft-teams-video-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 you can blur the background when joining Microsoft Teams video meetings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you have a\u00a0two-foot-high stack of papers on the desk behind you? Does your whiteboard contain information\u00a0that isn&#8217;t quite ready to be broadcast? Or maybe you are working from the aeroport and your camera is facing the main terminal hallway \u2013 all of those people running past can be distracting. Video meetings humanize participants, but\u00a0what&#8217;s behind you isn&#8217;t always something you want to share with others.\u00a0When you join a scheduled Teams meeting, you can use a video filter\u00a0to\u00a0blur all of that stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click to join a meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"258\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground01-1024x258.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground01-1024x258.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground01-300x76.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground01-768x194.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground01.png 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the slider next to the video camera to join the\nmeeting with video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground02.png 645w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground02-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You will see a video preview. Click the middle slider to activate\nthe background blurring filter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"443\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground03.png 680w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground03-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The video preview shows the changes. If the blur\nsufficiently obfuscates whatever you didn\u2019t want to show, click \u2018Join now\u2019 and\njoin the meeting. If your desk still looks a mess \u2026 move your stuff \ud83d\ude0a\nThe blur effect is not applied to things the filter considers to be in the \u201cforeground\u201d\n\u2026 so you <em>might<\/em> be able to achieve\nmore blurring by pushing an object farther from the camera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"662\" height=\"426\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground04.png 662w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsBlurBackground04-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can currently blur the background when joining scheduled Teams meetings. There is an <a href=\"https:\/\/microsoftteams.uservoice.com\/forums\/555103-public\/suggestions\/36204625-allow-video-background-to-be-blurred-in-meet-now \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"You can currently blur the background when joining scheduled Teams meetings. There is an RFE on UserVoice to enable this feature for 'meet now' meetings and video calls. (opens in a new tab)\">RFE on UserVoice to enable this feature for &#8216;meet now&#8217; meetings and video calls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a\u00a0two-foot-high stack of papers on the desk behind you? Does your whiteboard contain information\u00a0that isn&#8217;t quite ready to be broadcast? Or maybe you are working from the aeroport and your camera is facing the main terminal hallway \u2013 all of those people running past can be distracting. Video meetings humanize participants, but\u00a0what&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[675,666,665],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-did-you-know","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}