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Enable gif backgrounds for Microsoft Teams
If you need it right now you can use OBS here is https://www.amandasterner.com/post/how-to-get-a-moving-background-in-a-microsoft-teams-meeting-other-fun-things
ngath Too much work required; easier if Microsoft developers gives us this function in the next update.
TMorg2000 At the risk of sounding like an old curmudgeon, I would like to formally veto this request. We really don't need a bunch of irrelevant activity going on in the background while someone is talking or presenting. One or two animated backgrounds might be quaint; a dozen backgrounds with zombies eating brains, Hooters dancing girls, Wizard of Oz flying monkeys, Godzilla attacks, Warcraft Victory parties, Las Vegas Slots, and extreme weather gifs would be seizure-inducing - even if it takes the edge of those monthly TSP reports that Lundberg keeps asking about.
- TechWonk This is a little closed-minded. Teams isn't just used in your organization, nor is it only available for business users. MS has made Teams available for free to anyone, not to mention it's used for education. Easier GIF and animated background support is analogous to emoji, sticker, and GIF support in chat.
JBock Nope! I disagree. A chat thread that is peppered with an occasional emoji or gif is completely different from having to manage a meeting - professional OR informal - with someone whose background look like I just ate a bag of magic mushrooms. Combine that with the "Hollywood Squares" type of layout of Teams and it's an invitation to a world of spasms and seizures.
That being said, it's not like I oppose it. Rather, there has to be some limits that are outlined by the meeting organizer in advance. If someone wants to go all trippy and encourage everyone to have at'er with animated backgrounds - so be it. BUT, I still believe it would be extraordinarily distracting. To me, watching nine talking heads in front of animated fractals, strobing Escher drawings, and looping gifs of hockey fights for a half hour while attempting to make sense of an invoicing discrepancy just is not conducive to a focused meeting environment.
Because, by your comment, a Teams meeting could look something like this:
TechWonk Have you seen the memo... we're putting new cover sheets on the TPS reports rather than the TSP reports.
Having now spent 2 years with an endless succession of fake offices and apartments behind people, I'd rathe have a blurred background or flying monkeys or extreme weather or just about anything else.
