The great lockdown we all experienced in the year 2020 greatly popularized video conferencing platforms and programs.
At a time when everyone was confined to their homes, tools like Zoom or Google Meet became basically the only options to see the faces of our loved ones, attend classes, or gather with our colleagues.
But, of course, having an “open window” to our homes could be problematic, so many quickly resorted to using the virtual backgrounds included in these programs, which prevent other participants in the video calls from seeing our rooms (especially if we just woke up).
With remote work already standardized in many companies, people continue to rely on this feature, and Google has taken the initiative to update Meet, offering more variety to the video call backgrounds. How? By generating our own backgrounds thanks to the power of artificial intelligence.
The AI-generated backgrounds are one of the experimental features of Google’s Workspace Labs and are being gradually rolled out to all Google Meet users.
Once you have this feature enabled, you can try it before starting a Google Meet meeting by clicking on the icon in the bottom right of your preview, going to Effects, and clicking on “Generate a background.”
After that, you simply need to enter a message with what you want as your background, such as “a spaceship” or “the top of Mount Everest,” and then click on “Create samples” (you can also choose a style to further customize the result).
Google will provide us with four suggestions that we can select from, and we can also generate more sample images or even edit our message to generate other types of backgrounds.
An invaluable addition to Google Meet, this feature joins other AI products from Google, such as the chatbot Bard, and a new search experience that is currently in experimental phase, potentially revolutionizing the way we search for anything on the Internet.
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