![]() ![]() Google Meet was still locked behind a paywall during the initial months of the work-from-home era, and while it eventually became as easy to use as Zoom, it was after Zoom became a household name. Google Meet was technically created in 2017 as a group business video chat application called “Google Hangouts Meet,” but it really became a major project after Zoom’s growth exploded in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. ![]() The Meet and Duo video services were both built as reactions to Google’s far more stable communication competition. ![]() That means there are now two apps called “Google Meet.” Google has a help article detailing this extremely confusing situation, calling the two Meet apps “Google Meet (original): The updated Meet app” and “Google Meet: The updated Duo app.” The “Google Meet (original)” app will someday be put out to pasture it’s just sticking around while Google rebuilds the meeting functionality on top of Google Duo. So Google Duo is being rebranded to Google Meet, and the existing Google Meet app is sticking around for a bit. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. Google stated earlier "As part of our mission to build a connected experience for all users, we’re excited to bring our video calling and meeting technologies together into a single, powerful, easy-to-use solution.This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Because of this growth, the platform became the obvious chose for Google to focus on video and voice options. Those tools include Gmail, Google Calendar, Assistant, Messages, and others.ĭuring the pandemic, Google Meet's popularity surged as many people started using it for conferences and work-related video calls and meetings. ![]() On top of that, the size of video calls will be upgraded from the current 32 to 100 participants.Īnd last but not least, you will be getting integration with other Google tools. You will be able to customize virtual backgrounds in calls and meetings, you will be able to schedule meetings, use in-meeting chat, share content live during meeting, and get real-time closed captions for a better accessibility. Here's what you will be able to do once Duo becomes completely upgraded with Meet features. Duo will be getting a few new features in consequence. This new Meet (the former Duo) will become the default. The current Meet is expected to get the name "Meet Original". The merging between the two apps will happen with an upgrade to Duo, which will become Meet. On the other hand, Duo was a free video chat app, and it has a lot in common with Apple's FaceTime, basically aimed at one-to-one video chats, rather than large conferences. Let's look into a bit more details as to what this merger means.įirst off, Google Meet as it is right now is a video platform that's mainly aimed at video calls with many people (mainly work-related meetings). The merging of the two apps has as a goal to have a single Google platform that is responsible for video calling and meetings, and it will be under the name of Google Meet. Google Meet and Duo merger will make a single video-calling and meeting platformīack in the beginning of June, Google announced the big change officially. The update to Google Duo is now starting in a phased manner, meaning initially a small number of users will be getting it, and a wider rollout will be happening subsequently. Google is expected to phase out Meet after the upgrade of Duo has been completed. On the other hand, the legacy Google Meet app will remain (probably, for a certain amount of time) as an app with meeting capabilities but without Duo's video calling. ![]()
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