Google Meet has been updated with support for up to 500 participants on the premium Workspace customer video meeting service. The company has upgraded its service, which has grown in popularity with the rise of remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing users with more expensive plans to hold calls with multiple people. more participants. The new limit is still half the number supported by Microsoft Teams, which currently allows up to 1,000 people to join a video meeting.
The company announced changes through a blog post, indicating that customers on Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus and Education Plus plans will now be hostable Google Meet calls with up to 500 participants. Customers using other plans will not be covered as part of this update. “We hope that by increasing the size of meetings, it becomes easier to connect and collaborate with your colleagues, clients, and clients.”
With the new video meeting participant limit, Google Workspace customers will be able to engage more users on the company’s service. However, it is worth noting that the opponent Microsoft Team now allow 1,000 users to join a Group video meeting. Google Meet, on the other hand, allows customers to enable live streaming, allowing up to 100,000 viewers to watch at the same time. Google says the new limits for eligible customers will begin to apply to eligible users on November 16.
Google has updated its video meeting service with a number of new features over the past few months, including audio-video lock feature Allows the server to mute participants during a call.
In September, the company announced significant changes to its Workspace offering, adding support for making voice and video calls from the Gmail app, as part of the company’s efforts to compete with rival services like Microsoft 365.
The company is also testing the beta version direct translation feature for select paid users, while users can also use auto brightness Tuning feature for video calls.
