Virtual background for online meetings

[mtbc]

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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[lovelyangel]

I do have a green screen and subject lighting (because – fussy photographer plus mildly NSFW wall art behind me). The green screen works great, and I do have a variety of backgrounds that vary from my own landscape photography... to Makoto Shinkai anime movie backgrounds... to Star Trek backgrounds.

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.

[mtbc]

Alack, Teams is probably the main one I'm having to care about here, I wish it were Zoom instead. I'll try to remember to poke around in Teams to see what I find. (And maybe it'll then eat even more CPU. Though Zoom seems to eat plenty even while waiting for the meeting to start!)