Google Meet will now let you use custom backgrounds on video calls

Google Meet will now let you use custom backgrounds on video calls
By Kim Lyons

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Google is introducing custom backgrounds for its Meet videoconferencing platform, the company announced in a blog post. If you use Meet in Google’s Chrome browser you should be able to access the feature in Chrome OS as well as on Windows and Mac laptops and desktops. The feature is “coming soon” to mobile, Google says.

There’s no browser extension needed to activate custom backgrounds; you should be able to add a background image from your own photo collection or from a library of images provided by Google that includes landscapes, abstract art and (for some reason) offices.

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Google Meet custom backgrounds

It may take up to a week before all Google Meet users can access the new custom background...

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October 31, 2020 at 07:17PM
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