Google Meet video conferencing made free for all amid coronavirus lockdown

Owing to an increase in video conferences amid lockdown, Google on April 30 made its premium video conferencing product, Google Meet free for all users. California based tech giant also revealed that it had accelerated release of all top requested features of product. Until w, Google Meet was only available to G Suite customers.

“Starting in early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of same features available to our business and education users, such as simple scheduling and screen sharing, real-time captions, and layouts that adapt to your preference, including an expanded tiled view”, Google wrote on its website. 

According to reports, availability of product would be rolled out in coming few weeks. Elaborating furr, it will continue expanding its availability across different regions, meanwhile, people could sign up to get tified when it would be available to m. Google Meet could be used by groups, teams, businesses schools, etc. Making app free would also allow for a broadcast call for everyone to join.

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Google Meet's feature upgrade

Google Meet has started rolling out an updated version to compete with growing popularity of Zoom calls amid COVID-19 pandemic. In major feature upgrade, Google Meet has expanded tiled layout which w let 16 participants appear on screen simultaneously, which previously enabled only four people to feature on layout. company has also indicated that more updates will be rolled out for larger meetings, better presentation layouts, and support across more devices.

or major update is Low-light mode which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automatically adjust video to make users more visible to or participants in sub-optimal lighting conditions. However, feature has currently been made available for only mobile users and will be available to web users in future.

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