Blur Your Backgrounds with Skype’s New ‘Blur’ Feature
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Everyone has faced the problem on video calls of messy backgrounds and unwanted appearances from family members. If you’re on an important Skype call and you don’t want a messy background or visitor to interfere with your call. ,
Fortunately for you, you can now blur your background and hide whoever’s trying to make a mess of your reputation with Skype’s new blur feature. No one has to find out now about any unwanted guests or objects in the frame because the frame will focus on just you.
Microsoft’s latest announcement allows users to have video conferences without the fear of leaving a bad impression. It could be anything important like a job interview or mundane like your mother checking in to see how you were doing.
The technology used in the new feature is an AI that was first introduced by Microsoft last year. This AI is trained to detect human form and only focus on you while you are talking. The company’s own blog describes it as a technology that can detect not only your hair but also your arms, face, eye movement, hands and shoulders. This allows for smoother transition and results in a more relaxed call.
People online have found the feature to be really useful. They have commented on Twitter about how it was about time that Microsoft realized it needed this. The overall response to the new feature has been positive, and many people have also started posting tutorials on how to use it.
However, there are some concerns about the feature. For instance, without a clear background, you would have a blind spot. All your focus would be on the call and you might not realize what’s happening in your background since it’s blurred on your screen.
Nonetheless, blurred backgrounds are a breakthrough for people giving interviews at home. Business people can now hold meetings from their homes without worrying about their kids distracting anyone. An instance where such a situation has occurred is when BBC was interviewing a professor named Robert Kelly and his cute child stepped in the room to steal the show. People suddenly started tweeting about how it was the greatest interview moment of 2017.
This new AI technology, therefore, proves to be very useful. With this new feature, you can take comfort in the fact that your privacy will be maintained.