Google Meet Video Calls Upgraded With Support for Up to 500 Participants

Google Meet has been up to date with help for as much as 500 individuals on the video assembly service for premium Workspace clients. The firm has upgraded the service, which grew in reputation alongside a rise in distant working in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, permitting customers on the dearer plans to host calls with extra individuals. The new restrict remains to be half the quantity that’s supported by Microsoft Teams, which at the moment permits as much as 1,000 individuals to affix a video assembly.

The firm announced the adjustments by way of a weblog put up, stating that clients on Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Education Plus plans will now have the ability to host Google Meet calls with as much as 500 individuals. Customers on different plans won’t be coated as a part of this replace. “We hope that by increasing the meeting size, it will be easier to connect and collaborate with your colleagues, clients, and customers,” the corporate said.

With the brand new video assembly participant restrict, Google Workspace clients will have the ability to accommodate extra customers on the corporate’s service. However, it’s value noting that rival Microsoft Teams at the moment allows 1,000 users to affix a Teams video assembly. Google Meet, alternatively, permits clients to allow livestreaming, which permits as much as 100,000 viewers to tune in on the similar time. Google stated that the brand new limits for eligible clients began rolling out to eligible customers on November 16.

Google has been updating its video assembly service with a number of new options over the previous few months, together with an audio-video lock function that enables a bunch to mute individuals throughout a name.

Back in September, the corporate introduced essential adjustments to its Workspace providing which added help for making voice and video calls from the Gmail app, as a part of the corporate’s efforts to compete with rival providers like Microsoft 365.

The firm can be beta testing a stay translation function for choose paid customers, whereas customers have additionally been ready to make use of an automated brightness adjustment function for video calls.