Many competitors are trying to encroach on the popularity of the video conferencing service Zoom. Today, Google Corporation , what in a new mode for displaying the members gallery will appear. If earlier it was possible to see only four online interlocutors on the screen at the same time, then with the new Google Meet tiled layout, 16 conference participants can be observed at once.
The new 4x4 grid in the style of Zoom is not the limit. In the original application up to 49 people can be displayed at the same time, if the performance of the PC processor allows. But Google Meet's drive to increase the number of online meeting participants to 16 people at a time is already progress.
Last week, Google also promised that the Meet app would be able to broadcast a single Chrome tab and that the service would be able to improve video quality in dim light and filter out background noise. The company implemented the first declared possibility in the Chrome browser . Working with the application in low light conditions () is currently available for mobile device users, it will be available for desktop users "in the near future". WITH background noise suppression is the opposite: in the coming weeks it will be available to users of G Suite Enterprise and G Suite Enterprise for Education to work through a web browser, and only then it will reach users of portable gadgets.
The Google Meet platform, like other online video conferencing services, has seen significant growth amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In an April 9 post, Google that its service registers more than 2 million new users a day. The company will also provide free access to some advanced features of Google Meet from July 1 to September 30.
Source: 3dnews.ru