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Microsoft Teams has introduced a new tool called 'decorate your background' that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to clean up or add decorations to your background during video calls. Users can choose from options like clean-up, fancy, or celebration, with the tool removing distracting items or adding festive elements. The feature will be available for Teams Premium users in early 2024.
Microsoft Teams is introducing two new AI-powered features to enhance video calls. The "decorate your background" feature uses generative AI effects to clean up and replace clutter in the background, while the voice isolation feature suppresses other noises to ensure only the speaker's voice is heard. These additions aim to improve the overall video and audio quality in Teams meetings.
Microsoft Teams is introducing a new collection of still and animated backgrounds for video meetings, with six categories including wood and light, contemporary, and colorful clouds or mountains. The new backgrounds will cater to people on the autism scale and those with accessibility needs. The update will be rolled out to Microsoft Teams' 300 million monthly active users starting today.
Google Meet is introducing a new feature that allows users to turn off individual feeds during a meeting to block out potential distractions like virtual backgrounds or pets. The feature is available on both mobile and desktop apps and won't notify anyone that their feed has been turned off. Additionally, users can now block out all feeds except for those belonging to the presenter by selecting "Audio only" when joining a meeting, but this feature is only available on mobile devices for now.
Microsoft Teams has integrated more than 20 Snapchat Lenses into its video effects section, allowing users to add virtual sunglasses, cats, and sloths to their video calls. The feature is limited to Teams for Work users and requires the use of the "classic" version of Teams. Microsoft has leveraged Snap's Camera Kit SDK to bring these Snapchat Lenses to Teams. Additionally, Microsoft is rolling out a new dynamic backgrounds feature in May, allowing users to replace their background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment.
Microsoft Teams has introduced a green screen feature to enhance virtual backgrounds by improving the sharpness and definition of the background around the user's face, head, ears, or hair. The feature is available in the public preview channel of Microsoft Teams and requires a dedicated green screen or a solid color green or clear background wall. However, it is only supported on Windows and macOS devices with Intel chips and will disable any background blur and is not currently supported in Together Mode.