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Last fall Google included options for
blurring your background in Google Meet and using your own photos as backgrounds in Google Meet. Today another background alternative was added to Google Meet..

In the future, if Google permits us to submit our own videos to use as backgrounds we might us those videos in a virtual green screen environment in which the video plays behind us while we talk about whats displayed.

You can now use videos as virtual backgrounds in Google Meet. The present video background alternatives offered by Google are “classroom,” “party,” and “forest.”.

You can now utilize videos as virtual backgrounds in Google Meet. The current video background options provided by Google are “classroom,” “party,” and “forest.”.

For those who havent attempted virtual backgrounds or blurred backgrounds in Google Meet, in the video listed below I demonstrate how to use both of those features.

That said, it is great to have a choice to separation the regimen of Google Meet conferences with an enjoyable background choice. In the future, if Google permits us to upload our own videos to use as backgrounds we could us those videos in a virtual green screen environment in which the video plays behind us while we talk about whats shown.

Applications for Education.