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It’s part of the webcam feed provided by the OS to apps on the latest macOS. This means the effects apply across all apps. You can increase lighting adjustment (aka Studio Light) and depth of field with sliders in the system menu bar, as well as toggle thede reactions on and off. They’re on by default.

For what it’s worth the lighting and background blur effects are really good, much better than the tuning built into Zoom. I’m leaving the reactions on too for the comedy for now but I’ll probably turn them off eventually.

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I didn’t know this was available at an OS level. Excited to try this blur over the Google Meet implementation.

Found instructions here: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-video-conferenc...

It doesn’t work over google meet. The other person was wrong, it does not apply to the OS video feed, apps have to explicitly support it in some manner.

I just tried this on meet.google.com on my personal account (Chrome 118 on MacBook Pro M1 Max), works for me.

guessing it's a chrome thing then. I refuse to use chrome and it most definitely does not work in FF.

I see. I thought it was only on FaceTime because the fix was to enter the camera settings from there. I know facetime ships with the OS but that settings really should be accessible from the normal settings applet

The effects don’t apply across all apps. I tested in google meet last week and it didn’t work.

From someone who set off balloons in a customer call using Google Meet last week, I can assure you they work :)

I haven’t investigated much further but it’s possible the settings are per-app or something.

might be browser based then. I tested in several different apps and google meet was the only one that didn't work, and I refuse to use Chrome, so it might just not work in firefox. point is, it isn't universal, there are apps it doesn't work in, else my testing wouldn't have shown failure at all.

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