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Copper Contributor

Mar 31, 2020

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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 24, 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

manoelguedes

Copper Contributor

Apr 01, 2020

doug4772 That's weird. I used to have the background blur option avaiable on my iMac teams app, but it's gone now. I checked the terminal command line and do not show AVX2.0 either.

ericsar

Copper Contributor

Jun 03, 2020

manoelguedes, I just saw your comment. I had the same experience--the blur working at one point, and then disappeared. Did you ever get that resolved? I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) with 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7. And the result I get from sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features is this:

machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 PCLMULQDQ DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX SMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 SSE4.2 x2APIC POPCNT AES PCID XSAVE OSXSAVE TSCTMR AVX1.0 RDRAND F16C

Grandswiss
Copper Contributor
Jun 03, 2020
What’s the output of this command?
sysctl -a | grep avx2
- ericsar
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 03, 2020
  Grandswiss, this is what I get:
  
  sysctl: unknown oid '-'
  - Chtchouss
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 05, 2021
    ericsar, you should remove the space between ’-’ and ’a’.