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doug4772
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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's avatar
    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

     

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_vyom_
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Jul 21, 2020

Hi Grandswiss, 

I have MBP late 2011, and AVX 1.0. It wasn't working for me before, which brought me to this thread. In fact I use Skype and it works perfectly on that as reported by others above. 

Here is what worked for me. 
1. Go to Settings --> General --> tick Disable GPU hardware acceleration (requires restarting Teams)
2. Restart Teams app and on your 1st video call it should give an option to include background effect

Hope it works for you too. 🙂
Cheers!

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Grandswiss
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Aug 20, 2020

_vyom_ 

Just to let you know: With version 1.3.00.18164 blur and backgrounds work now even without AVX2. If I execute "sysctl -a | grep -i avx", my older MacBook Pro returns "hw.optional.avx1_0: 1, hw.optional.avx2_0: 0" (=AVX1.0 yes, AVX2.0: no). But it can blur now, what it did not offer in a previous version 🙂