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The confinement and isolation of our beloved series has made video calls part of our daily lives. But this has not only happened in our home, companies also need quality solutions to make video calls. Zoom is the company that has taken best advantage of this situation, popularizing its tool as one of the best despite privacy issues. Corrected these, it seems that its scalability has no limits.
Google doesn't want to be last in this race and has therefore opened its Hangout relay, Google Meet, for everyone Google Meet is a reliable premium video conferencing service for communicating whether at work, school or at home. It has some interesting features such as the ability to sub title in real time or the mosaic view that its great rival has popularized.
What is Google Meet like and why use it to make video calls?
Meet is a video call service that supports up to 100 participants and 100,000 viewers and is designed for yoga classes, business meetings, important work, teaching classes, communicating with friends, etc. Either will be a good use for this tool.
To use Google Meet you will need a Google account and you should know that your transfers over the network will be encrypted and encryptedIn addition, it has an app for Android and iPhone and also compatibility for use in browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc. They also claim that they do not use your data and that your data is not sold to third parties, which is an important fact.
Everyone can use Google Meet for free
The platform has communicated that as of May 4 all users will be able to use the service for free, through the website meet.google.com and also through all its applications. Google has not given data on how many users Meet currently has, but they assure that in the last 3 months they have multiplied by 30. It boasts against its rivals of being one of the most secure platforms.
Until now it was only possible to use Meet if you were a G Suite user but now everyone can use it for free. If you already have a Gmail account all you need is to sign in to meet.google.com and start. Otherwise, you will need to create a Google account. You can hold meetings of up to 60 minutes for free, although there will be no time limit until September. Google will offer all G Suite Essentials for free until September 30. Are you going to give it a chance?