Now you can be a cat in Google Meet calls

In comparison with another video chat apps, Google Meet is…nicely, form of boring. Certain, you possibly can change the background or blur it, however up till now, that was about it relating to personalization.

This adjustments immediately. Google has built-in a bunch of recent filters and masks into Meet, making it a bit extra like Google Duo (which Meet is changing anyhow) and really very like the Snap Digital camera app on Zoom. These embody new, animated backgrounds akin to an undersea setting with bubbles and jellyfish swimming round (additions to the three launched in April), in addition to altering your head into the top of a cat, elephant, dinosaur, and extra.

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To entry these new choices, be part of or begin a Meet name on Android or iOS, then faucet the flicker icon within the backside proper. Underneath the previous choices for background results, you will see a further row on choices akin to Blur, Backgrounds, Kinds, and Filters.

The brand new options needs to be reside now for Android and iOS customers, each within the Meet app and even in Gmail. Nevertheless, there are some limitations — you possibly can’t get them within the net expertise, and it solely works for private accounts, not managed accounts, akin to these owned companies and universities. Sure, which means you will not be capable of shock your colleagues by having a dinosaur head on the assembly immediately, sorry.

Simply make sure you all the time test your settings earlier than you be part of a video name. This didn’t end up nicely for a lawyer in Texas.