Missing menu for screen effects in Teams

Question

Hello, in my institutional account for Teams it seems that the menu for screeen effects (blurring, personalization) is missing. Here is a picture of the available menu accessible from the "three-dots" when joining a call. How to enable the menu? Thanks, Francesca A. Lisi (uniba)

Answer 1

Hi @Francesca Alessandra Lisi ,

Did you check if your computer meets the hardware requirements and specifically the AVX2 requirement?

Hardware requirements for Microsoft Teams
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/hardware-requirements-for-the-teams-app

The blur option or change the background is basically to identify the person or the first object near to the camera and the rest all vectors should be changed.
For that Microsoft is using the Advanced Vector Extension 2 (AVX2) graphics, so if you are using older laptops with Windows/Linux, and didn’t find any option about the background effect, don’t worry, that’s the expected behaviour and Microsoft will come up with a fix quickly.

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Leon

Answer 2

@Francesca Alessandra Lisi ,

As a supplement, you can also refer to this article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-your-background-for-a-teams-meeting-f77a2381-443a-499d-825e-509a140f4780.

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