{"id":13071,"date":"2020-07-17T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13071"},"modified":"2020-07-17T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:09:02","slug":"13071","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/13071\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual backgrounds &#038; blurs are coming to Google Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It may seem like a small thing, but I&#8217;m happy to say that my previous team&#8217;s work on realtime <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/02\/check-out-our-realtime-video-segmentation\/\">human segmentation<\/a> + realtime browser-based machine learning will be coming to Google Meet soon, <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/g-suite\/introducing-some-new-meet-features\">powering virtual backgrounds<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Since making Google Meet premium video meetings&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.google.com\/meet\/\" target=\"_blank\">free and available to everyone<\/a>, we\u2019ve continued to accelerate the development of new features&#8230; In the coming months, we\u2019ll make it easy to blur out your background, or replace it with an image of your choosing so you can keep your team\u2019s focus solely on you.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/meeeeeet-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"Replace your background.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-13077\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/meeeeeet-1024x571.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/meeeeeet-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/meeeeeet-768x428.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/meeeeeet.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may seem like a small thing, but I&#8217;m happy to say that my previous team&#8217;s work on realtime human segmentation + realtime browser-based machine learning will be coming to Google Meet soon, powering virtual backgrounds: Since making Google Meet premium video meetings&nbsp;free and available to everyone, we\u2019ve continued to accelerate the development of new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13078,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13071\/revisions\/13078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}