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Copper Contributor

Mar 31, 2020

Solved

Blur Background on Mac OS

I am using a Macbook Pro to work remotely. The blur background feature is helpful, but it appears to be absent in Teams for Mac. I noticed the blur feature support page says it's not available on L...

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Grandswiss
Apr 23, 2020
doug4772
Both of my macs reported in "machdep.cpu.features" only AVX1.0. I executed this command
sysctl - a | grep avx
On one mac (blur disabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 0

On another mac (blur enabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 1

Grandswiss

Copper Contributor

Apr 23, 2020

doug4772

Both of my macs reported in "machdep.cpu.features" only AVX1.0. I executed this command

sysctl - a | grep avx

On one mac (blur disabled) I got

hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 0

On another mac (blur enabled) I got

hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 1

kathysgeek

Copper Contributor

Apr 24, 2020

Grandswiss Thanks for further confirmation that AVX2.0 is the discriminator.

Now if only we can get someone at Microsoft to discuss why they changed the code to require it when blur worked fine on AVX1.0 devices on the previous version of Teams.