I don't have the mental space to waste filling it with details of another Google communication product they are going to discontinue in a year.
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#72I left Google and the Meet team a while ago. Would have been great to experience this 30x growth though! Being oncall these days would have been interesting. I have used Meet a lot both personally and professionally this spring and I think it's great. Been waiting for this announcement!
From the oncall side, it hasn't been bad.
Urs said stop breaking things, so we did.
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#73I use meet professionally on a daily basis as my company is a GApps for business customer and most people I talked to are pretty satisfied. Sound, connection and video quality is very good, far better than Slack in my opinion. We had meetings with more than 100 paticipants. Integration in Google Calendar is also a big plus. One pretty minor thing that bothers me is that the webcam and mic mute toggles and the hang up…
That's something I've noticed as well...
I'm gonna go file a feature request.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why can't be one loyal to an app?
What has the app ever done to deserve your loyalty?
You might be taking "loyalty" a bit too literal, but that question seems odd on a forum that's broadly aligned with a community that features the editor wars (emacs, vi!), operating system wars (BSD, Linux, macos!) and countless other ways of attaching one's identity to pieces of software.
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#75I work for Google, but not on anything related to Meet. I'm most excited about this because the video/audio quality is much higher.
When I use Zoom with friends, everyone is usually 320x240, or maybe 640x480 if there's only one person. Doom was 320x240 in 1993.
In Google Meet, I usually see people at 1280x920. A 4k monitor will fit 6 people at that resolution.
I value this higher resolution because it makes me feel more connected to people.
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#76I don't have the mental space to waste filling it with details of another Google communication product they are going to discontinue in a year.
Google products ( and other tech company products ) are discontinued when they don't take off. Meet has a 100 million daily call participants.
And really with video conferencing product, I don't get the whole trope of "but they might discontinue it." - the utility is immediate in terms of the calls that you make with it, and time boxed till by when a call ends.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Consider resolution. With non encrypted video, you receive one hd stream. With 100 people, you'd need 100x the bandwidth, and supporting things like highlighting speaking people would need to be done client side.
I honestly thought that was the case already (that highlighting is happening client side, and that my client receives each stream separately). So what you're saying is that currently a central server is performing the task of merging those 100 streams into a single stream for users. So it needs to do this separately for each user configuration of how they want to see the streams?
Yes, large videoconference tools like zoom meet etc. all use a central server to do intermediate processing. One on one (or small group) apps are often p2p, and can therefore be e2e encrypted.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've used it and never noticed bad call quality and it performed pretty much very similar to Zoom. Not needing an installed app is a huge bonus.
Zoom doesn't require an app, they just hide the link to use the web version pretty well. You have to click to download the app, then cancel the download, and the link to join via browser appears.
There's an asterisk to that. There was a not insignificant chunk of time that Zoom had to disable their web client, which was a pain...
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#79I work for Google, but not on anything related to Meet. I'm most excited about this because the video/audio quality is much higher. When I use Zoom with friends, everyone is usually 320x240, or maybe 640x480 if there's only one person. Doom was 320x240 in 1993. In Google Meet, I usually see people at 1280x920. A 4k monitor will fit 6 people at that resolution. I value this higher resolution because it makes me feel m…
G Suite domain owner and manager here, huge fan. Using zoom and meet a lot these days. Zoom’s voice prioritization is very nice compared to Meet. And if the Brady Bunch view is coming, I welcome it.
My only other complaint is that my world (DoD health) blocks Most of G Suite.
Re: Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
#80I work for Google, but not on anything related to Meet. I'm most excited about this because the video/audio quality is much higher. When I use Zoom with friends, everyone is usually 320x240, or maybe 640x480 if there's only one person. Doom was 320x240 in 1993. In Google Meet, I usually see people at 1280x920. A 4k monitor will fit 6 people at that resolution. I value this higher resolution because it makes me feel m…
G Suite domain owner and manager here, huge fan. Using zoom and meet a lot these days. Zoom’s voice prioritization is very nice compared to Meet. And if the Brady Bunch view is coming, I welcome it. My only other complaint is that my world (DoD health) blocks Most of G Suite.
Meet already has grid view, can show up to 16 people.