How To Use & Enable Background Blur Feature on Google Meet

If you regularly attend many office meetings via video conferencing in Google Meet and are tired of spicing up the background and surroundings of your room to make it look good on a video call, then the Google Meet functionality can be helpful for you.

Google finally added background blurring to its video conferencing and collaboration tool, Meet, which allows users to blur the background to obscure the surroundings. Read on to find out how you can use this feature.

Requirements:

Google user account

Internet connection in operation

Google Chrome browser

Steps to follow:

1. Open Google Meet and create a new meeting or join an existing meeting on the web.

2. Now tap on the three dots in the lower right corner of the meeting window

3. Here find the Enable Background Blur option and click on it

4. Now use the slider to control the amount of background blur.

Note: To make the function more efficient, make sure the camera is stable and there is a good distance between the subject and the background.