Video conferencing services have become hugely popular, allowing you to virtually meet with others when in-person conversations aren’t possible. For Zoom, this has led to the creation of its virtual background feature allowing you to change your background to help you pretend you’re in a library, on the beach, Santa’s grotto, or pretty much anywhere where want.
We walk you through how to set up and use a virtual background in Zoomhereor in the video below (no green screen required). Essentially, you can choose any image as your background. It’s handy if you have a messy room or cluttered environment you want to hide during a video call. Even Disney and DC are fans of Zoom’s virtual background feature, as they’ve now shared free images for people to use.
The continued popularity of video conferencing for work and play has resulted in some pretty hilarious and fun Zoom background ideas. Check out some of our favourites below.
Starship Enterprise
This is the perfect background for any Trekkies phoning into a meeting. Just verify your Starfleet uniform is pressed for the occasion.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has put up apage loaded with backgroundsfeaturing several aquatic friends, including this image of jellyfish.
Intimidate your co-workers by showing them the king of the monsters has your back. Legendary Picturestweeted this imagealong with a few others for Zoom backgrounds, including one with King Kong.
Trade your co-workers in for a co-pilot with this Zoom background from the new film Top Gun: Maverick. The official Twitter account tweeted this image along with afew others.
Final Fantasy VII
The team behind the remake of Final Fantasy VIIshared fourgorgeous sci-fi Zoom backgrounds from the upcoming game.
John Wick 3
The Twitter account for John Wick 3: Parabellum shared somebackground imagesfor Zoom. The only problem is we aren’t supposed to conduct business on continental grounds.
Animal Crossing
The recently released Animal Crossing has become a huge hit. We think there’s no better way to invite a friend or co-worker over to your island once you’re off the clock than with this Zoom background.
The Office
The characters in The Office spent most of their workdays talking to cameras. Now, you’re basically doing the same thing, but with Zoom.
Hallway from The Shining
If your boss doesn’t think this is an appropriate background for a meeting, just remind them that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Pretty room
This background basically just tricks your co-workers into thinking your house is really put-together and clean.
