Virtual background for online meetings
Oct. 1st, 2021 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It has been suggested that, on some occasions, I should be discreet about from where I am working. This seems easier to achieve if I habitually use virtual backgrounds in Teams, Zoom, etc., giving rise to the awkward choice of what background. Abstractly, I would prefer it not to be overly striking, not requiring comment, and it is fine for it not to be widely recognized. Though, somebody else at work uses a background that frustrates me in seeming to depict the interior of a room from a work of science fiction, either a bigger-budget effort from no earlier than the seventies, or lower-budget a couple of decades later, but I cannot place it, and I am not used to not being able to place such. Someday I may have to ask. Still, that kind of thing may be an option, among others.
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Date: 2021-10-01 01:24 pm (UTC)Or, take a picture of what the wall behind you would look like if you were in the office? Presumably you'd be disguising WFH rather than being in the building.
Or take a picture of your most impressive bookcase and then fuzzify it so people can't see the details, if you're misleading people who don't know what your office looks like.
But be careful not to trust this too far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX7AyuCE1FE
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Date: 2021-10-01 11:40 pm (UTC)That gentle triangular background sounds intriguing. Hmmmm. Could be a promising approach indeed.
My impressive books are still in boxes, awaiting floors being finished then bookcases assembled. (-:
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Date: 2021-10-02 11:38 am (UTC)https://unsplash.com/s/photos/bookshelf
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Date: 2021-10-01 02:42 pm (UTC)I have seen a variety of artificial backgrounds. They may be preferable to a messy office. The holideck is almost upon us.
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Date: 2021-10-01 06:34 pm (UTC)However, the relatively new Blur Background feature in Zoom works really well to mask one's environment. I don't know if that feature is available in Teams or Slack or other videoconferencing apps.
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Date: 2021-10-02 04:05 am (UTC)But I like high realism art, and classical subjects, and like the idea of him researching cutting edge research of the time for his paintings. Even if half the women look like English beauties. :p
He also started putting Opus numbers on his paintings, serial numbers basically, to make forgery more difficult. Wiki:
"In 1872 Alma-Tadema organised his paintings into an identification system by including an opus number under his signature and assigning his earlier pictures numbers as well. Portrait of my sister, Artje, painted in 1851, is numbered opus I, while two months before his death he completed Preparations in the Coliseum, opus CCCCVIII. Such a system made it more difficult for fakes to be passed off as originals.[16] "
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Date: 2021-10-02 01:03 pm (UTC)I've also liked the realistic and classical, e.g., stuff by John William Waterhouse.