Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams offer ways to use virtual backgrounds for extra privacy or simply a change of scenery. An alternative is to blur the background completely. Here's how.

How to blur background on Zoom. Enable the setting before a meeting: Open the Zoom desktop application and sign in. Click on your profile picture at your top-right corner.

Once it differentiates between the two, it can blur on out to produce the desirable bokeh effect you get with professional DSLR camera with a low-aperture lens. Facebook’s camera can produce a ...

According to Microsoft, the feature to detect the person, and the background, works only on computers equipped with Advanced Vector Extension 2 (AVX2) graphics. AVX2 is what Teams use to blur the ...

Not getting the dreamy out-of-focus backgrounds you were hoping for from your dSLR's kit lens? Here's how to do it. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and ...

Background blur was already a feature available to Microsoft Teams to help hide anything sensitive in the background during a call. Now Microsoft has rolled it out to desktop users to help them ...