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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

Grandswiss

Copper Contributor

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

tate4771_ski

Copper Contributor

Oct 06, 2020

Grandswiss

I have same issue on my Mac(iMac 2020(27inch).
My Mac support AVX/AVX2.
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% sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.feature

machdep.cpu.feature_bits: 9221960262849657855

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 FMA CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 SSE4.2 x2APIC MOVBE POPCNT AES PCID XSAVE OSXSAVE SEGLIM64 TSCTMR AVX1.0 RDRAND F16C

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% sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.leaf7_features

machdep.cpu.leaf7_features: RDWRFSGS TSC_THREAD_OFFSET SGX BMI1 AVX2 SMEP BMI2 ERMS INVPCID FPU_CSDS MPX RDSEED ADX SMAP CLFSOPT IPT SGXLC MDCLEAR IBRS STIBP L1DF ACAPMSR SSBD

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But, I can't select background.
My issue capture is here.
Please let me know any idea.

Grandswiss
Copper Contributor
Oct 07, 2020
tate4771_ski
To test it on my Teams version (1.3.00.23764), I did the following:
- In the bar on the left hand side, click on "Calendar"
- In the top row, click on "Meet now" (just to the left of "+New meeting")
- Now activate the camera; you should see yourself.
- On my screen, between the camera on/off button and the mute on/off button there is the "background effects" on/off button.

This works now even on my MacBook Pro, where "sysctl -a | grep -i avx2" returns "hw_optional.avx2_0: 0". Hope this helps.
- tate4771_ski
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 07, 2020
  Grandswiss
  Thank you for your message.
  But, I can't find "Background effect".
  My capture is here.
  
  % sysctl -a | grep -i avx2
  hw.optional.avx2_0: 1
  - Grandswiss
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 07, 2020
    tate4771_ski
    If I look at your screen shot, you have the button for "background effects" (I circled it red).
    What happens, if you disable/enable the "background effect" (middle) button?
    What happens if you disable/enable the "camera" (left) button?