Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone

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Post by yarapavan » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 2:26 AM UTC

Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
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Post by ciguy » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 5:41 AM UTC

Does this give better sound quality? Because the sound quality on meet (Or is it Hangouts?) has been abysmal for the last few years. I also have no idea what meet actually even is these days. Is it just a rebranded hangouts or did they add something and merge Hangouts in?

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Post by threatofrain » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 5:48 AM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23017478

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Post by cube2222 » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 5:48 AM UTC

I've been using Google meet as a remote student for a while (Google made meet available for free for education accounts a while ago already) and it's been a great experience, even with large groups of people online. We tested up to ~80 without any problems.

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Post by jpkeisala » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 5:50 AM UTC

> We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts.

If there is no guest accounts this will not be intresting for many.

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Post by petters » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 5:50 AM UTC

I 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!

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Post by leoh » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 5:56 AM UTC

ciguy wrote: post #2

Does this give better sound quality? Because the sound quality on meet (Or is it Hangouts?) has been abysmal for the last few years. I also have no idea what meet actually even is these days. Is it just a rebranded hangouts or did they add something and merge Hangouts in?

It is Google Hangouts oriented for businesses. I would try to reach out (or have your team do it) if you have a business account.

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Post by tehlike » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 5:57 AM UTC

petters wrote: post #6

I 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!

I'm a loyal user of hangouts.

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Post by leoh » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 5:58 AM UTC

cube2222 wrote: post #4

I've been using Google meet as a remote student for a while (Google made meet available for free for education accounts a while ago already) and it's been a great experience, even with large groups of people online. We tested up to ~80 without any problems.

Just was in a meeting with literally 250 people today, was really impressed how it held up.

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Post by rmac » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 6:07 AM UTC

cube2222 wrote: post #4

I've been using Google meet as a remote student for a while (Google made meet available for free for education accounts a while ago already) and it's been a great experience, even with large groups of people online. We tested up to ~80 without any problems.

a few days ago I was in a zoom meeting with 996 people. The mac client was sluggish on my 2017 core m3 macbook but the audio (and video when scrolling around gallery view) never lagged or went tin-y.