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What would be ideal is a way to setup those features with your webcam then use that video feed on whichever calling software you like. Other online calling software either don’t have them or they are configured in different ways.

Teams is getting them with some limitations. Zoom has blur and virtual background options. You can have a blurred or virtual background for any online video call, not just ones that have those in-built features.
