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doug4772
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Mar 31, 2020

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

     

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Ethya1230
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Sep 09, 2020

doug4772 I can't find a way to blur the background through the interface. However, the keyboard shortcut does work: Cmd-Shift-P

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