{"id":446966,"date":"2022-06-02T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=446966"},"modified":"2022-06-02T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:51:31","slug":"google-merging-duo-and-meet-into-a-single-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/446966-google-merging-duo-and-meet-into-a-single-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Google merging Duo and Meet into a single app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is combining its two video-calling apps \u2014 Meet and Duo \u2014 into a single service, the tech giant <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/workspace\/bringing-the-power-of-google-meet-to-google-duo-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday, 1 June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of the apps will still fall under the Google Meet name, and the single communications service will be available to everyone at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As part of our continued investment in helping people stay connected, and to adapt to evolving user needs, we&#8217;re upgrading the Duo experience to include all Google Meet features,&#8221; vice president of Google Workspace, Jay Soltero, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Later this year, we&#8217;ll rename the Duo app to Google Meet, our single video communications service across Google that is available to everyone at no cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google said the upgrade would also allow users to use enhanced features, including the ability to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customise virtual backgrounds in calls and meetings;<\/li>\n<li>Schedule meetings so everyone can join at a convenient time for them;<\/li>\n<li>Use in-meeting chat;<\/li>\n<li>Live share content and allow all participants on the call to interact;<\/li>\n<li>Get real-time closed captions for better accessibility and participation;<\/li>\n<li>Increase the size of video calls from 32 to 100 participants; and<\/li>\n<li>Integrate other tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, Assistant, Messages, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google also said that Duo&#8217;s existing video-calling features, such as calling friends and family using phone numbers or email addresses, and using fun filters and effects, would remain.<\/p>\n<p>It added that all conversation histories, contacts, and messages would continue to be saved in the app.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/446724-whatsapp-getting-message-editing-feature.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp getting message editing feature<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s combined app will also include several enhanced video-calling features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":446976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[37268,64380,78780,34991],"class_list":["post-446966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google-duo","tag-google-meet","tag-jay-soltero","tag-video-calling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446984,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446966\/revisions\/446984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}