With much of the global white-collar workforce now forced to work from home, there’s been an increasing reliance on video conferencing software of late; Zoom looked to be software to capitalize on this by allowing large virtual meeting rooms; but with their recent downfall for lapse security measures, it leaves a gaping hole for another company to step in.
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Google is looking to take the mantle by implementing their Meet video conferencing feature to Gmail. The latter is, of course, a widely used e-mail feature; so it makes a whole lot of sense that users can start video calls immediately with anyone in their Gmail list.
But here’s the catch, this Gmail-Meet implementation only allows up to 16 participants in one video call, which is a far cry from the 250 participants the standalone software allows. On top of that, Meet is only available to businesses, schools, and governments. But you let’s rem So, its focus is clearly for productivity, not fun reunions.
This also means that people with free Gmail accounts won’t have access to this, only organizations with paid G Suite accounts. So if your school or work place uses G Suite, then you’ll be in for a treat once this feature rolls out gradually in the coming weeks
