Google gives Meet some overdue attention with fresh interface and lots of new features
Video calls and meetings are finally starting to hit feature parity.
JoriPress
- Google Meet is updating video calls with a more advanced, feature-rich interface.
- You can start applying multiple video effects like backgrounds and filters at once.
- The app’s on-the-go mode will let you switch calls to audio-only when needed.
Yesterday’s Made by Google event was nothing short of a marathon, as the company shared feature after feature, app after app, and a whole slew of new Pixel 9 and Pixel Watch hardware. After letting loose that firehose of announcements, how could there be anything left? Believe it or not, the action’s not stopping now, and today we get word of some big changes coming to Google Meet video calls.
For starters, Google is overhauling the app’s interface, freshening things up with a new layout. The company’s trying to make things feel more consistent across the software, and is updating the video call experience to be more like what you’re used to for meetings. Google undersells that quite a bit in its announcement, but as 9to5Google points out, this is a pretty significant step towards smoothing over some of the inconsistences that have lingered since the Duo merger years ago.
