How to get a fun background to make your meeting more interesting?
As we all know, remote work has become a new normal for us. Virtual meetings are now an integral part of employee engagement and interaction. To add more fun to your virtual meetings, you must use some funny backgrounds to avoid boredom and distraction from the background.
It’s handy if you want to disguise your messy background or you want to hide background during a video call. You can add your customized funny backgrounds or either just download it from Room For Zoom and apply it during calls.
This is how to add funny backgrounds on Zoom, Skype, Microsoft, Google Meet.
- Zoom Backgrounds:
A. In your zoom meetings simply select the up arrow (^) on the start video button and select “choose virtual background”
B. Select the add button and select where you have saved your background.
Note: The first time you do this, you will be asked to download the smart virtual background package.
Eg: Funny background for Zoom
2. Microsoft Team backgrounds:
A. The very latest version of Microsoft teams makes it much easy at is now a menu alongside other images.
B. For older versions: in windows, you can press Windows + R to bring up the Run dialog, copy and paste the line (%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads)
C. When you see a background you like, right-click on the image and choose “save image as” then copy and paste this line to the window explorer save dialog to save the image to that folder.
Your selected image will now appear in the list of backgrounds. You can now select a background in teams.
Eg: Microsoft team background
3. Google Meet Backgrounds:
A. Now you can use third-party extensions for Google Chrome to add backgrounds in google meet. Visual Effects for Google Meet has a Virtual Green Screen feature as well as Blur, Pixelate, Inverse, and Contrast features
B. You can install it directly from the Google Chrome store.
C. You can visit the home page of Google Meet directly and choose any visual effects from there.
Eg: Google Meet Background
4. Skype Backgrounds:
A. Click on the profile image in the top left and select the menu option that appears, go to settings.
B. Now you just have to select the Audio & Video option to get access to the “Add Image” button. This will allow you to select the file for your background.
C. During aa call, to get to this option, hover over the video button or click the three dots (…) More menu.
Eg Skype Backgrounds:
These are the various platforms where you can apply these funny backgrounds during a video conference or else you can see more from Room For Zoom and more fun to your calls.
