aster.cloud aster.cloud
  • /
  • Platforms
    • Public Cloud
    • On-Premise
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Data
  • Architecture
    • Design
    • Solutions
    • Enterprise
  • Engineering
    • Automation
    • Software Engineering
    • Project Management
    • DevOps
  • Programming
    • Learning
  • Tools
  • About
  • /
  • Platforms
    • Public Cloud
    • On-Premise
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Data
  • Architecture
    • Design
    • Solutions
    • Enterprise
  • Engineering
    • Automation
    • Software Engineering
    • Project Management
    • DevOps
  • Programming
    • Learning
  • Tools
  • About
aster.cloud aster.cloud
  • /
  • Platforms
    • Public Cloud
    • On-Premise
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Data
  • Architecture
    • Design
    • Solutions
    • Enterprise
  • Engineering
    • Automation
    • Software Engineering
    • Project Management
    • DevOps
  • Programming
    • Learning
  • Tools
  • About
  • Solutions
  • Technology
  • Tools

Google Meet In 2021: A Year Of Accelerated Innovation

  • aster.cloud
  • December 31, 2021
  • 4 minute read

2021 has been a year of change for all of us as the pandemic continued to expedite technology’s role in keeping us connected through video. Google Meet played a significant role in enabling those connections, helping friends, families, and colleagues across the globe safely come together.

As we saw in our recent global Economist Impact survey (October 2021), hybrid work has become a standard practice for many, underscoring the need for meaningful video meetings for the foreseeable future. Our survey also saw that, over the course of the pandemic, a lack of physical connection has led to feelings of disconnectedness. That’s why this year we’ve worked hard to enable ways for people to stay connected in a more human way—with a solution that’s flexible, immersive, inclusive, and secure by design.


Partner with aster.cloud
for your next big idea.
Let us know here.



From our partners:

CITI.IO :: Business. Institutions. Society. Global Political Economy.
CYBERPOGO.COM :: For the Arts, Sciences, and Technology.
DADAHACKS.COM :: Parenting For The Rest Of Us.
ZEDISTA.COM :: Entertainment. Sports. Culture. Escape.
TAKUMAKU.COM :: For The Hearth And Home.
ASTER.CLOUD :: From The Cloud And Beyond.
LIWAIWAI.COM :: Intelligence, Inside and Outside.
GLOBALCLOUDPLATFORMS.COM :: For The World's Computing Needs.
FIREGULAMAN.COM :: For The Fire In The Belly Of The Coder.
ASTERCASTER.COM :: Supra Astra. Beyond The Stars.
BARTDAY.COM :: Prosperity For Everyone.

Here’s a look back at this year’s most requested and impactful Google Meet features that help address the challenges of hybrid work, learning, and life.

 

Fueling the flexible future of work

As many of us worked from home and others made big moves across the country, we delivered greater flexibility to support work-from-anywhere. We introduced new features that help people easily join or host meetings from their device of choice.

  • A new, intuitive interface allows participants to get started quickly, display up to 49 people at once, and hide self-view to reduce meeting fatigue.
  • A standalone progressive web app and updated mobile apps allow you to join from your device, whether you’re working from your desktop or connecting from your phone on a walking meeting.
  • Recently increased meeting sizes of up to 500 attendees for select Education, Business, and Enterprise plans helps ensure everyone has a spot in the meeting.
  • Attendance reports that can keep track of attendees, whether for work, a class, or a new workshop you’re hosting.
Read More  Google Cloud Next For Data Professionals: Analytics, Databases And Business Intelligence
The new, intuitive interface lets you hide your video tile to reduce meeting fatigue

 

Making meetings more immersive

As people returned to the office, many organizations needed to ensure an immersive meeting experience for in-person and remote attendees alike. To support this challenge, we invested in new Google Meet hardware and features that help bridge the gap.

  • Companion mode, rolling out to users in January, allows you to join a meeting from a conference room on your personal device to actively participate in chats, polls, and Q&A, while leveraging in-room audio and video.
  • New Google Meet Series One all-in-one video conferencing devices, Series One Desk 27 and Board 65, and Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini room solutions from Logitech can turn almost any space into a video collaboration hub.
  • Recently launched interoperability between Cisco Webex devices and Google Meet devices can broaden your calling network and create a cross-platform experience.
  • Organizations can also get more from their Google Meet hardware, which can now be leveraged as digital signage displays for workplace announcements when not in use.
Series One Desk 27 is a all-in-one touch-enabled video conferencing device for the office or home office

 

Supporting collaboration equity

For meetings to be more equitable and inclusive, we want to help everyone on the team feel seen and heard. Regardless of where you’re dialing in from, your level of experience with video meetings, or the language you speak, you can have the opportunity to engage and participate.

  • New virtual backgrounds, automatic light adjustment, and noise reduction help keep the focus on people and ensure that participants can be seen and heard, whether they’re joining from the office, a coffee shop, or the kitchen table.
  • Hand raising improvements with automatic lowering give participants the opportunity to share their perspectives, while breakout rooms can help facilitate deeper engagement in small group discussions.
  • Polls and Q&A can help keep the presentation going and on topic while helping to make sure the audience is engaged and questions are answered.
  • Translated captions, rolling out soon, and live caption support for multiple spoken languages can help attendees who are deaf or hard of hearing, speak a different primary language, or are in a noisy location, better understand and participate in meetings.
Read More  Canonical Accelerates AI Application Development With NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Translated captions can help ensure all attendees understand and participate in meetings

 

Greater control and protection for your conversations

As more organizations adopt cloud-based meeting solutions, security remains top of mind for IT decision makers. To address this concern, we launched new security features and host controls on top of our trusted global infrastructure to help better protect your data and conversations.

  • With client-side encryption for Google Meet, currently in beta, companies are able to manage encryption keys in-house to help fulfill data sovereignty and compliance requirements.
  • Meeting hosts and co-hosts can now choose which attendees can share screens and send chats, as well as mute the room when others are speaking and end the call for everyone on the call.
  • Organizations and individuals can record meetings with confidence and control view access with Google Drive for on-demand viewing.
  • Meeting hosts can now reach a broader audience with live stream support for up to 100,000 viewers that can be shared with people in other trusted organizations.

As I look back on 2021, I’m so proud of the innovations our team launched, and more importantly, our customers’ perseverance in adapting to the new realities of the workplace. They’re leveraging our solution along with new workplace practices to bridge the gap and make hybrid work feel more human. We’re excited to see all the ways (and places) people will use Meet to connect, create, and collaborate in 2022.

 

 

By: Dave Citron (Director of Product Management, Google Meet)
Source: Google Cloud Blog


For enquiries, product placements, sponsorships, and collaborations, connect with us at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you!

Our humans need coffee too! Your support is highly appreciated, thank you!

aster.cloud

Related Topics
  • Google Cloud
  • Google Meet
  • Meetings
  • Tools
You May Also Like
View Post
  • Computing
  • Multi-Cloud
  • Technology

Reliance on US tech providers is making IT leaders skittish

  • May 28, 2025
View Post
  • Computing
  • Multi-Cloud
  • Technology

Examine the 4 types of edge computing, with examples

  • May 28, 2025
View Post
  • Computing
  • Multi-Cloud
  • Technology

AI and private cloud: 2 lessons from Dell Tech World 2025

  • May 28, 2025
View Post
  • Computing
  • Multi-Cloud
  • Technology

TD Synnex named as UK distributor for Cohesity

  • May 28, 2025
View Post
  • Computing
  • Multi-Cloud
  • Technology

Broadcom’s ‘harsh’ VMware contracts are costing customers up to 1,500% more

  • May 28, 2025
View Post
  • Computing
  • Multi-Cloud
  • Technology

Weigh these 6 enterprise advantages of storage as a service

  • May 28, 2025
View Post
  • Computing
  • Multi-Cloud
  • Technology

Pulsant targets partner diversity with new IaaS solution

  • May 23, 2025
View Post
  • Computing
  • Multi-Cloud
  • Technology

Growing AI workloads are causing hybrid cloud headaches

  • May 23, 2025

Stay Connected!
LATEST
  • 1
    Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story
    • May 29, 2025
  • 2
    Reliance on US tech providers is making IT leaders skittish
    • May 28, 2025
  • Examine the 4 types of edge computing, with examples
    • May 28, 2025
  • AI and private cloud: 2 lessons from Dell Tech World 2025
    • May 28, 2025
  • 5
    TD Synnex named as UK distributor for Cohesity
    • May 28, 2025
  • Weigh these 6 enterprise advantages of storage as a service
    • May 28, 2025
  • 7
    Broadcom’s ‘harsh’ VMware contracts are costing customers up to 1,500% more
    • May 28, 2025
  • 8
    Pulsant targets partner diversity with new IaaS solution
    • May 23, 2025
  • 9
    Growing AI workloads are causing hybrid cloud headaches
    • May 23, 2025
  • Gemma 3n 10
    Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI
    • May 22, 2025
about
Hello World!

We are aster.cloud. We’re created by programmers for programmers.

Our site aims to provide guides, programming tips, reviews, and interesting materials for tech people and those who want to learn in general.

We would like to hear from you.

If you have any feedback, enquiries, or sponsorship request, kindly reach out to us at:

[email protected]
Most Popular
  • Understand how Windows Server 2025 PAYG licensing works
    • May 20, 2025
  • By the numbers: How upskilling fills the IT skills gap
    • May 21, 2025
  • 3
    Cloud adoption isn’t all it’s cut out to be as enterprises report growing dissatisfaction
    • May 15, 2025
  • 4
    Hybrid cloud is complicated – Red Hat’s new AI assistant wants to solve that
    • May 20, 2025
  • 5
    Google is getting serious on cloud sovereignty
    • May 22, 2025
  • /
  • Technology
  • Tools
  • About
  • Contact Us

Input your search keywords and press Enter.