The Covid-19 pandemic has made the whole world rediscover the importance of those platforms that are able to connect people even very distant only through a banal internet connection.
Whether you have a connection to the fiber network or via a mobile network, a smartphone and a service such as Google Meet are enough to forget distances and restrictions.
Thus, first during the lockdown and then for restrictions of various kinds to stem the spread of the virus, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, FaceTime and all similar services have experienced a surge in terms of registered users and traffic generated. Consequently, it is not surprising that Google, Microsoft, Apple and the other development teams have put a lot of effort into improving the platforms as quickly as possible, so as to deliver the best service when school, business, and people needed it most. The developments continue unabated, and the latest in order of time comes from Google which has introduced on Meet the possibility to blur the background or to set a customon Android.
The new wallpapers of Google Meet
To some, today's news knows that it has already seen, and in fact it is partly so. The possibility of intervening in the background of Google Meet has existed for almost a year in the desktop environment, but until now it had been excluded from applications for Android and iOS.
And if for the Apple operating system there are no news on the horizon, the time has come instead for the debut on Android for the possibility of blurring the background or setting a custom one.
In fact, a neutral background is not always available, such as a white wall, to best attend an important business meeting, and in this case the possibility of blurring the background to hide what is behind it can be useful for regardless of the medium used, whether you participate through a webcam or with the front camera of the smartphone.
The ability to set a custom background can be useful in conversations between friends, for example by pretending to be in the Bahamas when in reality you are in a completely different place, perhaps less exotic. In short, being able to set a neutral background or a personalized one greatly expands the freedom to converse on video, both in formal contexts and in friendly or goliardic ones, why not.
How to activate the new Meet wallpapers on Android
First of all, it should be noted that Google Meet does not (yet) allow you to set a totally personalized background, that is, one taken from the smartphone's memory. This possibility will come, Google warned, but it's not the time yet.
In fact, the choice can be made between the blurred background or between "one of the images selected by Google", which include office spaces, panoramas and abstract motifs. To choose the background on Google Meet for Android just tap the new button that appears in the pre-conversation “green room”, and then scrolls through the various options offered by the carousel.
The rollout of the novelty, as often happens in these cases, is gradual, so it may take a few days, if not a couple of weeks, before it reaches everyone.
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