• Combine multiple video effects on web and mobile: You can now combine a background effect with a filter effect to create a more dynamic, fun experience. This gives you the flexibility to find the right mix of effects that will represent you best during your meetings. The new layer icon on your self view tile can be used to keep track of which effects you’re using and remove one or all effects at once.

Combining effects using Google Meet on a mobile device

You'll also notice a brand new user interface for effects. The streamlined design makes it easier for you to discover and apply various features. Specifically, you’ll notice effects grouped by category:

• Backgrounds: Backgrounds are now organized into categories based on the type of scene you are looking for, such as new backgrounds, blurred backgrounds, your uploaded or company uploaded background, and more.
• Filters: Sort through filters by category, including funny filters, accessories, costumes and characters.
• Appearance: Adjust your appearance as needed by improving your lighting, framing, and video quality.
  
  
  
• Studio lighting on web: Available with the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on, the new studio lighting feature can be used to simulate studio-quality lighting. You’ll be able to adjust the lighting position, brightness, and color to look your best. Note that for this initial launch an eligible device is required to use this feature.

For illustrative purposes only — to use Studio Lighting, go to Apply visual effects > Appearance > Studio lighting.

• Studio sound: This feature will automatically improve poor audio quality from typical bluetooth headsets and dial-in participants by using AI to recreate higher audio frequencies. Currently, this feature is available for meetings on the web and dial-in, with support for the mobile Meet app coming in the coming weeks — we’ll share an update on the Workspace Updates blog at that time. This feature is available with the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on.

Studio sound will use AI to improve audio quality.

• Logitech Rally Bar 
• Logitech Rally Bar Mini
• Tap IP

Additional details

As part of this launch, we are also providing admins with a new capability to protect their room devices using a passcode. This ensures that only authorized users are able to access and change the room’s device settings. This feature is only available for Logitech Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini in appliance mode, where Rally Bar’s built-in computer supports Google Meet without the need for an additional computer or a user’s laptop. Visit the Help Center to learn more about setting up Logitech devices as Meet Hardware and enrolling your devices.

• Meeting hosts can now add or start live streaming from any ongoing Meet call, even if it wasn't initially planned to be live streamed. 
  
  
  
  To start a live stream, at the bottom right select Activities > Live Streaming

• Live stream viewers can now see the size of the audience (call participants and viewers) in the top left live stream indicator. 
  
  
  
  
  
• The join screen now has a quick-access button, which meeting participants can use to join a live stream if they prefer that experience over the regular call.
• Video feed will start even faster when joining live streams with large audiences.
• Viewing live streams from the Google Meet mobile app on Android and iOS devices is now supported. 

• Above the main doclist, users will now see a tappable folder hierarchy for their current view. This allows a user to keep track of where they are in Drive and easily navigate out of nested folders. 
• Per-file data columns to show when a file was last modified and how much storage is used by each file. 
• A color palette that matches the Google Material Design 3 guidelines. 

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Previous announcements

• Programmatically create and configure Meet calls. 
• Retrieve information about past meetings, such as the meeting times and attendees. 
• Access meeting artifacts, such as transcripts and video recordings. 
• Subscribe to real time updates on meetings, such as when a participant joins or leaves. 

• A simplified user interface with access to the most critical features such as mute & unmute, hand raise, and audio device selection. 
• Only key information is displayed, such as the active speaker and the number of people on the call. 
• Your video is automatically turned off. 
• You have the option to view presented content. 

• First, viewers can now send emoji reactions during a meeting, which is a lightweight, non-disruptive way to engage and participate in meetings without interrupting the speaker. 

• Next, meeting hosts and co-hosts will be able to promote a viewer to a meeting contributor while the hosts are using picture-in-picture mode. This gives hosts greater flexibility and saves time when needing to change participant rights without having to leave PiP mode. 

Promoting & demoting viewers while in PiP mode

• Admins: Reactions will be ON by default and can be turned off in the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing this feature. 
• End users: 
• Hosts: When you’re using picture-in-picture mode, you can transition viewers to contributors from the people panel by selecting the three-dot overflow menu and then selecting “Make a contributor”. 
• Viewers: If enabled by your admin or meeting host, visit the Help Center to learn more about assigning View only roles in Google Meet. 

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now. 

• Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Teaching & Learning upgrade, and Education Plus customers 

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage Meet settings
• Google Help: Assign View only roles in Google Meet

• Subtle: very light complexion smoothing, under eye lightening and eye whitening.
• Smoothing: slightly more complexion smoothing, under eye lightening and eye whitening.

• You can turn this feature on across all rooms by going to Directory > Buildings and resources > Global room settings and toggling Book rooms from Google Meet hardware. 
• You can turn off this feature for specific rooms by going to Directory > Buildings and resources > Resource management > Resources > [Room Name] > Room settings and toggle Exempt from in-room booking. 
• You can also bulk update the individual room toggle for up to 200 rooms from the resource management page.