Microsoft Teams: You can now blur the background during your video conferences 5k3s6a

Published on 24/09/2018

You will necessarily the viral video of Professor Robert Kelly* who, while being interviewed by the BBC, was interrupted live by his little girl; offering us one of the best television moments of recent years. To prevent you from finding yourself in this kind of embarrassing situation in the middle of a meeting with your collaborators or partners, Microsoft has developed a new feature for Teams, its instant messaging software for professionals.

Microsoft announced at today’s Ignite 2018 conference that a new Background Blur feature would be available for all s. This feature uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to distinguish faces and automatically blur a ’s background during a meeting.

This function was announced last March and then briefly proposed in a test version of the software. Now all s with Microsoft Office 365 can benefit from it.

The Blur “background” feature of Teams (credits: Microsoft)

To activate background blur during a video conversation in Microsoft Teams, simply go to the video conferencing menu at the bottom of the screen and click on “Blur background”.

* The video of Professor Robert Kelly turned viral: