{"id":13479,"date":"2020-09-17T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13479"},"modified":"2020-09-17T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:33:18","slug":"google-meet-adds-background-blur-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/17\/google-meet-adds-background-blur-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Meet adds background blur\u2014with a twist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;But what about the Web??&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d endlessly ask this of my old teammates, and I kept pushing to bring Google&#8217;s ML infrastructure (TensorFlow Lite, MediaPipe, etc.) and ML models (e.g. background segmentation) to everyone via browsers. Happily that work continues to bear fruit, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com\/2020\/09\/blur-your-background-in-google-meet.html\">the tech has come to the Web in Google Meet<\/a>. This is something I haven&#8217;t seen from competitors (which rely on native apps for segmentation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Background blur works directly within your browser and does not require an extension or any additional software. At launch, it will work on the Chrome browser on Windows and Mac desktop devices. Support for ChromeOS and Meet mobile apps will be coming soon, we\u2019ll announce on the G Suite Updates blog when it\u2019s available on those devices.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-suY2lON2Reg\/X2DwfwNC-cI\/AAAAAAAAJMc\/wYRz2_m7P706OHPbGANyBQ3Mk2M2_nC2gCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h360\/background%2Bblur%2Bgoogle%2Bmeet.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7SRZBhR5HqA\/X2Dww3XVqOI\/AAAAAAAAJMk\/8rEOqgJYIes2jBYKprzmQ7SMM4J3X_6XACLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h368\/background%2Bblur%2Bsetting.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But what about the Web??&#8221; I&#8217;d endlessly ask this of my old teammates, and I kept pushing to bring Google&#8217;s ML infrastructure (TensorFlow Lite, MediaPipe, etc.) and ML models (e.g. background segmentation) to everyone via browsers. Happily that work continues to bear fruit, and now the tech has come to the Web in Google Meet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479"}],"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=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13484,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions\/13484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}