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Patrick Meadows

Need to add blur background and virtual background like photos being used as a background

July 28, 2021

Thiago Zazirskas

Really important feature!!!!

Guilherme Limpo

I need it

Dave Kim

The fact that this has been in backlog for a year without clear commitment is concerning. All I see are improvements to new layouts and nav UI and new avatars and icons. But a lot of us don't care about this as much as the fundamental function of video chatting. And not having any way but third party software to do this is insane. For SMBs, you're basically requiring us to investigate, procure, and distribute another piece of software for the singular purpose of obfuscating our backgrounds so we don't have to have professional and clean backgrounds all the time. Please consider implementing this. Video backgrounds is something that affects everyone, many improvements you've made in 2022 only appeal to a subset.

Eleonora Pinto

Hide self view as well please!

Amit amit

Yes this is seriously needed on high priority

Joy Bancroft

marked this post as

under review

Jumped the gun - my apologies! We see and love the interest in this feature and we're looking into implementation.

Ryan Seamons

Joy Bancroft: Happens to the best of us. Other than overall performance and a few smaller UX bugs (echo right when someone shares, tricky to find mute buttons), this is easily the biggest piece separating Gather from video platforms like Zoom or Google. Being able to blur your background is incredibly helpful in keeping a professional look no matter the state of your home office.

Joy Bancroft

marked this post as

planned

Dave Kim

Joy Bancroft: I'm trying to find what "Planned" means. As a former Product Manager, this usually meant 1-2 Qs out. Can you give an estimate?

Joy Bancroft

Dave Kim: Hey, I jumped the gun a bit and should’ve left this in Under Review. We’ve seen the interest and are looking at how and when we can implement this feature.

Leo Vogel

Can we please get an official status update on this from Gather? Is this a planned feature?

Midori Kaneko

This is the highest priority for us because it makes lower the bar to turn on the web camera. And also it's more fun if we can use virtual background.

Eunice Lee

This is literally the only thing stopping us from completely switching from Zoom

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