MicrosoftTeams’ latest AI trick cleans and decorates your messy webcam background
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#6GD3N)
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Microsoft is adding two new AI-powered features to Teams soon that will improve your voice and webcam. A new decorate your background" feature is coming to Microsoft Teams Premium in early 2024 and uses generative AI effects to clean up and replace clutter in the background when on a video call.
While Microsoft Teams has long offered a variety of virtual backgrounds, this decoration feature will work in a real-world room, much like the augmented reality filters you find on Snapchat. It can even add plants, lights, and seasonal objects to the background behind you. We'll have to see how this functions in reality, but if it works as well as the GIF below, then it could be a good option to hide your messy background and avoid the...