Published 16:11 IST, July 3rd 2020

JioMeet takes on video-conferencing app Zoom, can support up to 100 participants

Reliance Jio has launched a video-conferencing app, JioMeet, to take on US-based Zoom as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Vocal for Local call grows stronger.

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Reliance Jio has launched a video-conferencing app, JioMeet, to take on US-based Zoom platform as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Vocal for Local call grows stronger. video-conferencing application can be used for one-to-one video calls and hosting meetings with up to 100 participants with enterprise-gre host controls.

application has an uncanny similarity with Zoom with which it has to compete in market. It is available on android, iOS, Windows, and SIP/H.323 systems and has alrey been downloed more than 100,000 times on Play Store. key features of app include creating instant meetings as well as scheduling a meeting in vance and share meeting details with invitees.

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re’s limit to number of meetings that can be help on free app and each meeting can go uninterrupted up to 24hrs, according to its Play Store description. Users can create Groups and start calling/chatting on single and host can enable ‘Waiting Room’ to ensure participant joins without permission.

New users can Sign Up on JioMeet only with an Invite Code shared by any existing JioMeet user and can also request Invite Code by writing to jiomeet.support@jio.com. Though Zoom became extremely popular for videoconferencing during social distancing measures, it raised privacy and security concerns which provided eugh for or players to enter competition.

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Competition from Google Meet

Recently, Google Meet expanded tiled layout which w let 16 participants appear on screen simultaneously, which previously enabled only four people to feature on layout. company also indicated that more updates will be rolled out for larger meetings, better presentation layouts, and support across more devices.

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

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16:11 IST, July 3rd 2020