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

The firm announced the modifications by way of a weblog publish, stating that prospects on Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Education Plus plans will now be capable to host Google Meet calls with as much as 500 individuals. Customers on different plans is not going to 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 prospects will be capable to accommodate extra customers on the corporate’s service. However, it’s price noting that rival Microsoft Teams at the moment allows 1,000 users to hitch a Teams video assembly. Google Meet, alternatively, permits prospects to allow livestreaming, which permits as much as 100,000 viewers to tune in on the identical time. Google stated that the brand new limits for eligible prospects 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 characteristic that enables a bunch to mute individuals throughout a name.

Back in September, the corporate introduced essential modifications 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 companies like Microsoft 365.

The firm can be beta testing a dwell translation characteristic for choose paid customers, whereas customers have additionally been in a position to make use of an computerized brightness adjustment characteristic for video calls.