Google Meet now free in India: How to use it?

A few weeks ago, Google had announced its plan to make Google Meet, its premium video-conferencing service, free for all.

Now, the internet giant has completed the transition, making the platform available to every individual who wants to have a virtual meeting with their friends, family, colleagues, or other connections.

Here's more about the free version of Meet and the way to use it.

Offering

• Free video meetings with up to 100 people, no limits
• Originally exclusive to G Suite customers, Google Meet is now free for all in any part of the world.

You just need to have a Google account to sign-in and start a virtual meeting with up to 100 participants.

The conferences won't have a time limit, but Google has already confirmed that a 60-minute meeting restriction will be introduced after September 30.

Features

• Popular premium features included in free version
• Popular premium features included in free version
• According to Google, the free version of Meet has been re-engineered from the G Suite-specific version, but it still has the same robust security and many premium features of the latter.

This includes simple scheduling and screen sharing, real-time captions, and layouts that adapt to your preference, including an expanded tiled view that shows up to 16 people at the same time.

Sign-in

• Google sign-in requirement is also for security
• The free version of Google Meet makes a better package than competitor Zoom, which caps its free meetings at 40 minutes.

But, in this case, both hosts and participants are required to sign-in with their respective Google accounts before starting a video-conference.

Google says it kept this requirement to give hosts more control over calls and prevent unauthorized members from gate-crashing the meeting.

Process

• So, how to start Google Meet calls?
• So, how to start Google Meet calls?
• To start a Google Meet call, go to meet.google.com, or download the iOS/Android app of the service.

Then, sign-in on the site/app with your Google account and click on the 'Start a meeting' option to initiate the video-conference and share its URL with all the people you want to join.

Then, these participants would be able to use that link to join the meeting.

Integration

• Google Meet integration also coming on Gmail
• Google Meet integration also coming on Gmail
• In the next few days, Google also plans to integrate the options to start and join a Google Meet call in Gmail.

This will be a perfect addition for people using Gmail for work and will certainly contribute towards boosting the user-base of the Meet, which, as of last month, was already raking in 3 million new users every day.

Source: NewsBytesapp