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Setting up a video chat literally means to tidy the place around you and Skype brings a solution to this problem. Skype automatically blurs the background for you

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Loyica Team
Feb 20 2019
Blur the Background while Video Chatting on Skype

Setting up a video chat literally means to tidy the place around you and Skype brings a solution to this problem. Skype automatically blurs the background for you while you remain in focus and everything around you gets subtly blurred. Seems like the days to clean all the mess before Skyping are over.

This feature was introduced in Microsoft in September 2018 while it is now available on Skype. However Skype’s background feature uses Artificial Intelligence to detect and focus on the human form in the frame. There is not a single moment to get your face out of focus while everything else is blurred. No matter what actions you perform, Skype will always let you stay in focus which is an incredible feat of technology.

A recent tweet by Skype also focused on its new blurring feature and cleaning up your room before video chatting.

This blurring feature comes in handy when you do not want to clean the place around you and be judged for it. Tidying up everything from your surrounding takes up good amount of energy. This feature saves you time and energy. If you have a business meeting online or chatting with your parents who are miles away then it would no longer take you a couple of minutes to video chat with them. This feature just gives people plenty of options to adapt to certain scenarios.

To enable background blur on Skype, the users have to click on Video Camera Icon at the bottom of their screen. This will lead you to open the Video Settings. From there, you can choose the option “Blur My Background” and just turn it on and you are ready to experience this incredible blurring feature on Skype.

This blurring feature, however, is only available on the machines that are running the latest version of Skype and not on Skype Classic. To use this amazing blurry effect, upgrade your machines to the latest version and start your live video chats keeping aside all the worries about tidying up your room.

 

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