Present high-quality video and audio in Google Meet
- A business meeting to review promotional videos.
- An engineering meeting to share pre-recorded product or feature demonstrations.
- Teachers sharing videos as part of a lesson plan to students.
- Presenting slides with embedded videos or GIFs, or with animated transitions between slides.
Additionally, by adding the ability to present a tab rather than a window or your full screen, we’re providing more control to presenters to make sure they can minimize distractions while they’re presenting.
Present a tab and easily switch between tabs
With this launch you can now present an individual Chrome tab. When you present a tab, it will be highlighted so you can clearly see which one you’re presenting. If you change your view to a new tab, a pop-up will ask if you want to switch to presenting the new tab or keep presenting the previous tab, making it easy to move between tabs and control what information you share with the meeting.
Use “present a tab” to share high-quality video and audio
The high-quality video and audio playback only works when you present an individual tab feature in Chrome (see above) on desktop devices. It does not work if you’re presenting a full window or your whole screen.
Upgrading previous Meet video presentation experience
Until now, users have been able to play video while presenting in Meet, but may have noticed choppy playback and no audio. Some users chose to use the Cast feature to present audio and video, but that had several limitations as well. This launch will mean users can avoid workarounds and limitations and easily include high-quality video in their meetings.
Users can already present high-quality audio and video to meetings using an HDMI cable with some Meet hardware kits. This will continue to work.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about presenting videos during meetings.
- Rapid Release domains: Already available to all users.
- Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility) starting on April 29, 2020.
- Available to all G Suite customers
- This feature was listed as an upcoming G Suite release.