Break The Monotony Of Your Video Meetings With These Travel-Inspired Backgrounds

by Suchismita Pal
Break The Monotony Of Your Video Meetings With These Travel-Inspired Backgrounds

Working from home is a comfy aspect for many, but oftentimes it turns out to be hilarious too. Imagine you’re on a video call with your colleagues, and your little one sneaks in from behind making funny faces. Or maybe, your mom starts cleaning your couch, totally unaware of your meeting. Or something even weird, your wife giving you an angry look for something you did terribly wrong. Sometime or the other, we all have been through such awkward moments.  While we can’t change the situation always, we can change our background settings for sure. Switch to a Zoom background, simply!

If you didn’t know, a virtual or Zoom background feature lets you display an image of your choice in your background while you are attending a Zoom video meeting. With these backgrounds, you can seem to be in any part of the world easily, right from your own room. And since you’re home stuck now, hospitality brand OneFineStay and fine art photographer Gray Malin have come up with some mind-boggling Zoom templates to take you to the best places in the world, virtually.

Here’s a list of 6 such Zoom templates that can turn your Zoom call into a pleasant experience:

1. Turtle Tail Estate- OneFineStay

If you want to get the feels of taking a con call from a luxury private haven in the mid of the Turks & Caicos island, pick up the Turtle Tail Estate template. With spotless white furnishings, yellow and grey decors and the brilliant blue sun-soaked island in the backdrop, your work stresses will be kept at bay. You can accompany the call with a home-made mocktail to pepper up the experience.

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Picture Credits: OneFineStay

2. Positano Beach Umbrellas Vista-Gray Malin

An office meeting from a sprawling umbrella-studded beach surrounded by lofty mountains! Say what? Gray Malin will let you live the experience. Italy’s Positano Beach is one of the most picturesque beaches in the world. While visiting Italy is a distant dream now, hitting up this mesmerizing beach virtually inside a call can be quite a cool idea.

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Picture Credits: Hello Giggles

3. Avenue-de-la-Bourdonnais-III, Paris-OneFineStay

This artistic chamber of Paris with silken curtains and cushy furnishings overlooks the marvellous Eiffel Tower. Swear by this Zoom room offered by OneFineStay to immerse your soul into vibes of royalty. If Paris is in your travel bucket-list and didn’t get a tick-mark yet, you can fulfil your dreams at least virtually for now.

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Picture Credits: OneFineStay

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4. Loge Peak, Aspen Highlands-Gray Malin

This is the best template for the one who is a die-hard mountain enthusiast. Nestling for work amid the snowy slopes of the towering Aspen Highlands of Colorado with pine-trees as comrades is like a beautiful dream turning into reality. And since you will be at your own room, you won’t get the chilled bites either.

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Picture Credits: Gray Malin

5. Casa Tepui-OneFineStay

Rooftop of a plush forest resort with bamboo lanterns, hammock swings, timber furnishings and lush greenery all around! This can literally transform your Zoom call into a feast of eyes. Casa Tepui resort is actually located in Mexico, in the Riviera Maya stretch. Accompany this experience with a rustic-themed room freshener, and you are good to go.

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Picture Credits: OneFineStay

6. Central Park, New York City-Gray Malin

New York City is the financial capital of the world and it houses headquarters of several top-notch businesses. Travelling to New York for work is a remarkable experience altogether. Get the hang of working from the giant Central Park of the financial hub by snagging this background from Gray Malin.

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Picture Credits: Gray Malin

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Here’s How To Personalize These Zoom Backgrounds

The templates are available in ofs.canto.com/s/IMF4J?viewIndex and www.graymalin.com/lifestyle/travel-from-home-with-our-new-zoom-conference-backgrounds.

To download them, sign in to the Zoom app from Mac or Windows and follow the steps below:

  • From settings, click on Virtual Background ( if you can’t find this, log in to the Zoom website, go to Settings and activate Virtual Background ).
  • Click on the ‘+’ icon from the Virtual Background menu.
  • Choose the background of your choice from OneFineStay or Gray Malin.

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So, all bored corporate folks out there, prep yourselves for a work from home experience like never before!