To me, watching nine talking heads in front of animated fractals, strobing Escher drawings, and looping gifs of hockey fights for a half hour while attempting to make sense of an invoicing discrepancy just is not conducive to a focused meeting environment. In the pop-up menu, click Show background effects. Click the three horizontal dots icon in the bottom toolbar. Microsoft Teams is one of the world’s most popular communication platforms, with more than 300 million monthly active users. To make the Teams experience more engaging. Ready to use a custom background during your Microsoft Teams meetings Just follow these steps: Join the meeting as you normally would and click the camera icon in the bottom toolbar to turn on your webcam. But now Teams users can spice up their video calls and express their individuality to make virtual communication more exciting than ever before. BUT, I still believe it would be extraordinarily distracting. Microsoft Teams is adding new animated backgrounds to the original collection which hasn’t seen any major update since 2020. If someone wants to go all trippy and encourage everyone to have at'er with animated backgrounds - so be it. Rather, there has to be some limits that are outlined by the meeting organizer in advance. Click on an image and then select the Apply button. Microsoft has released a few new backgrounds for Microsoft Teams that are nostalgic and fun to use as background in your next video meeting. That being said, it's not like I oppose it. Microsoft Teams has been able to blur your background during video calls for nearly 2 years, but now you can choose a virtual background or upload your own. To change your background to one of the built-in images, click the three-dot menu icon while on a Microsoft Teams video call and choose Show Background Effects to open the Background Settings panel. Combine that with the "Hollywood Squares" type of layout of Teams and it's an invitation to a world of spasms and seizures. A chat thread that is peppered with an occasional emoji or gif is completely different from having to manage a meeting - professional OR informal - with someone whose background look like I just ate a bag of magic mushrooms.
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