During the last months, video calling apps They have become the most used in practically the whole world, to maintain both contact with our beloved series, during confinement, and to be able to continue working from home, a change in the trend at work that seems to have come to stay, at least among the big tech companies.
Zoom, Skype, Teams, Google Meet ... have been the most used services, services that have gone adding new features on the fly to try to attract as many users as possible. Despite the worst being over, they continue to be updated to add new features. The last to do so is Skype.
Skype, Microsoft's video calling app, has just been updated on iOS to add a new feature, a feature many of its users will appreciate and that Blurs the background of video calls.
This feature, which was already available in the desktop version and via the web via Meet Now (also from Skype), use Artificial Intelligence to recognize which are the non-moving background elements to blur them keeping the focus at all times of the hands, arms, head (including hair).
Microsoft does not use our camera's autofocus, so this feature is available in practically all terminals that can run the latest version of Skype for iOS, be it iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.
According to the company, this background blur effect is very similar to what we can find in photos with bokeh effect, particularly in the portrait mode of the iPhone, but in video, a function that the Galaxy S20 also offers us when recording videos, not just taking pictures.
Skype is available for your download completely free, it is compatible with both the iPhone and the iPad and iPod touch and is one of the services that offers the best quality of both audio and video today.
