[input_sh]

Nope, no special API what so ever. In fact there's even a Firefox add-on that makes it work[0], Google Meet just doesn't target more than Chromium with this feature.

If you try using it, they'll redirect you here[1], and tell you to:

> Check if your browser supports WebGL 2.0 at webglreport.com and verify that “Major Performance Caveat” is marked as “No”.

...but clicking on that site from Firefox shows WebGL 2.0 support and "Major Performance Cavet" is indeed marked as "no". That being said, simply changing the user agent to Chrome also doesn't work.

So in conclusion, I end up using Chromium a few hours per week purely for Google Meet's blurry backgrounds, and I use Firefox for everything else.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mercator-stud...

[1] https://support.google.com/meet/answer/10058482?hl=en&expand...

[lerela]

Any reason not to use the add-on you mention in [0] instead of falling back to Chromium?

[input_sh]

Not really, I'm just used to this workflow. I've tried it, it works, and then went back to Chromium for this use case out of habit.

[Aissen]

Played with the extension, it does not seem to enable this feature: the option appears, but then there's an error message. Although the other features are fun.