Microsoft Teams can help hide your office’s mess during meetings. This feature can be useful if you want to avoid having to clean up after everyone else. You can add a team to your Office 365 account and then use the “hide meeting” button in the team’s settings. When a meeting is scheduled, the team will be hidden and you won’t have to worry about it.
Tired of tidying up your office before every team chat? Microsoft’s Teams can now blur the background for you.
Teams is Microsoft’s alternative to Slack for team chat, and it includes a video conferencing service. Microsoft announced the blurring feature in a blog post yesterday (via The Next Web).
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The idea is that meetings should focus on the people attending, not the environments they happen to be in. Facial recognition is used to find you in the shot and the background is automatically blurred. The post includes this GIF of the tool in action:
Yes: that is Professor Robert Kelly, the expert on Korean politics whose kids famously interrupted an interview on the BBC. Here’s that clip, in case you somehow missed it back in 2017:
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This is a great way to show off a feature, so kudos to the marketing team behind this.
Teams also recently added a recording feature to teams, complete with transcripts. From a Microsoft blog post:
It’s great to see Microsoft stepping up their game, and I hope it drives other companies in the space to keep adding new features.
