Chrome OS wants to improve video calling by providing video calling apps with background blurring and more new options to make video calling more enjoyable. Think of programs such as Google Meet and Zoom.
Blur background
Some of those apps can already ‘blur’ a background themselves, but it is even easier if this is controlled by default for all apps from the operating system. After all, they use the hardware of the laptop, namely the camera, so it is up to the operating system to be there as an ‘intermediary’ to facilitate this. Why not immediately put that intermediary to work and already blur the background of your camera image?
Google’s Chrome OS team is said to be working on built-in video camera effects, so that you no longer have your dirty dishes in the kitchen or your all-destructive cat in the picture, but only you are in focus and everything around you is blurred. That’s accomplished through machine learning, which means it’ll only be available on the newer devices running Chrome OS. Google is currently testing it on devices that have 11th and 12th generation Intel processors.
Portrait lighting
In addition, Google would test portrait lighting, a function that owners of Google Pixel are familiar with and that gives you a little better light in terms of light. 9to5Google at least saw in some Chrome OS code changes that this was coming. Chrome OS would also check when a video call starts, so it can, for example, give a warning if you start a call and the network is unstable.
It is good that in a world in which there is a lot of hybrid work, improvements are still being made to video calling possibilities. It doesn’t look like many companies are going back to the old 5-days-in-the-office pattern for the time being, so there is a lot of demand for better ways to make video calls. However, 9to5Google also indicates that it will probably take some time before these features make their appearance in Chrome OS.
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