How to use a virtual background in the google meet for mac os

A workaround to use a virtual background in the google meet, Cisco WebEx and other meeting software without a green screen for a mac os (OSX).

NOC Team
Make it easy
3 min readApr 14, 2020

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Snap Camera Virtual Background on Mac OS

Just install and try it. working even without a green screen

  1. Go to the website https://snapcamera.snapchat.com/

2. Enter your email and download a snap camera.

3. Install Snap Camera to your Mac. (Don’t forget to allow Snap Camera access your camera and microphone.)

4. Open Snap Camera and next next next.

5. At the bottom select a lens to set your background.

Original Camera
Snap Camera Lens

6. You maybe create your lens by using any picture with the Lens Studio. We will share the step to create your lens on the next stories.

How to create a virtual background on Snap Camera with the Lens Studio (in 5 minutes).

My Lens was created by Lens Studio with my background

Noc Team create a Lens that appropriate to use in online meeting/classroom for everyone and it’s easy to find like in picture below.

Sample picture of “chaovalit” lens

7. Go to google meet and settings a video option to “Snap Camera”. If you did not found this Snap Camera reboot your Mac and try again.

8. Join your meeting with a virtual background.

Hooray!!! It’s easy to use a snap camera to build a virtual background on mac os.

We hope this article will be useful to everyone.

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