![]() The list goes on, but you’ll have to explore the collection for yourself to see them all. ![]() Say goodbye to that “blur background” filter-now you can appear in front of a spectacular residence at Central Park Tower that overlooks Manhattan’s majestic skyline a stunning sky-high abode at the Ritz-Carlton Miami Beach, dappled in sunlight and graced with soothing ocean views or a sumptuous One Manhattan Square residence, where swanky interiors pop in front of a majestic sunset. The team at LX Collection scoured our database and sourced 16 incredible images from luxury properties in New York and Miami to upgrade your work-from-home life. Today, we’re releasing the “Working From Luxury” collection, an assemblage of virtual backgrounds depicting some of the world’s most exclusive properties, so you can Zoom, Webex, and Google Meet in style. That should be enough to get you started, right? Have at it, fellow Zoomers.With remote work here to stay and meetings that are more often face-to-pixel than face-to-face, it stands that our backgrounds could use a little sprucing up. Check out the offerings at these sites to list just a few: ![]() Indeed, there are a number of sites which have already posted collections of backgrounds you can use to spruce up your own little virtual presence. Now, I’m by no means revolutionary in this regard. Of course, no sooner did I sit down to write this piece and find a few sites boasting nice collections of backgrounds so you too can add a little extra zip to your Zoom sessions than I found this: It’s one that should be immediately recognizable to anyone with at least one foot standing deep in 1980s nostalgia: That was before I decided I needed something a little more retro, which led me to my current favorite. So, I took the red pill and freed my mind. Then I decided a virtual background deserved a window into an actual…you know…virtual world. …to a place where there’s no air anywhere.īut before I knew it I was offering fellow Zoomers sneak peeks into other, heretofore unseen areas of stately Ward Manor…. It was innocent enough, at first going from the Best Care Anywhere… NOTE: Click any of these to biggie size, by the way.įrom there, I started playing. At first it was the usual sort of thing you’d probably expect from me: (Taken during our 2017 trip to the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, NY)Īnd why have just any starfield as a backdrop when you can have one from the animated Star Trek series? ![]() I hinted a bit about this the other day in a piece I wrote about working from home, but since then? Yeah, it’s gotten worse. In and around all of this, I’ve been having a bit of fun with one of Zoom’s personalization features, the “virtual background.” Rather than broadcast a video feed of me sitting at my desk with my whiteboard on the wall behind me – which may or not contain various sensitive scribblings about projects in progress and so on and so forth – I can just insert myself into any real or imagined place in the universe. Okay, so maybe that sort of thing isn’t happening with everyone. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just Zooming away, thrilled with the ability to project a professional image from the waist up while everything below the camera level is an unfiltered party zone filled with chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze! Some of the warnings are legit and – at least as they’re telling it – the folks behind Zoom are doing their best to address and improve the various security concerns. Indeed, more and more of us are diving into the app and using it as a sort of virtual conference room, despite stories of hackers and other ne’er do wells crashing such environments for their own amusement as well as the numerous warnings that Zoom’s security features are about as helpful as a fishnet condom. The new normal is that those of us fortunate enough not to be furloughed or laid off during the current insanity communicate with our co-workers using email, texting, Skype, and…of course, Zoom.
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