
Be aware that the CPU has some processing to do to locate a face and blur the background, so it can impact other work on the PC if you run a loaded system.īackground blur is supported in the Teams desktop client for Windows and Mac, but not in the Linux or browser clients.įor more information about the hardware requirements for blurring, see the note in hardware requirements for Microsoft Teams. Blurring works on my Surface Book 2, but doesn’t on my HP Envy 17 of 2014 vintage. AVX2 is what Teams uses to blur the background after it figures out where the user is.ĪVX2 is supported by PCs that have a post- Haswell chipset.


However, the technology to perform face recognition to identify the person and understand where the background to be blurred begins and ends only runs on reasonably recent PC equipped with Advanced Vector Extension 2 (AVX2) graphics. Announced in July 2018 along with the free version of Teams, users can blur the background of video calls.
