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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 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

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’.
kathysgeek
Copper Contributor
Jun 03, 2020
ericsar
There should be no space after the hyphen.
sysctl -a | grep avx2
- ericsar
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 03, 2020
  kathysgeek, OK. I get this now:
  
  hw.optional.avx2_0: 0
  - kathysgeek
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 03, 2020
    ericsarSo you are in the same boat as the rest of us with 2013 era Macbooks.
    There is no Avx2.0 so Microsoft disabled all bluring and background features.
    There has been no resolution to my knowledge.