As video calling apps have become essential to doing modern work, ChromeOS is gearing up to improve those apps with blurred backgrounds and other useful tools.

In recent years, most work has moved online, especially dating.

Even connecting with friends has become easier with video apps like Google Meet, Zoom and many more.

Some apps offer their own ways to enhance videos with effects that can change your background, blur your surroundings or even adjust the amount of light in your room.

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Meanwhile, some newer devices like Macs and Apple Silicon include built-in video effects like portrait blur and Center Stage reshaping that work in any app that uses your camera.

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According to a new code change, it appears the ChromeOS team is looking to copy macOS's built-in camera effects.

This change will start with an option for built-in background blur, initially locked after a feature switch.

9to5google writes that from what information they can piece together, the background blur will be powered by machine learning, which means it will only be available for newer ChromeOS devices.

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Currently, Google is testing background blur effects on Chromebook devices that have 11th and 12th generation Intel processors.

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