G’day guys, how are you doing? If I've got a tile view it's going to keep it in this tile view, but it's only going to support basically up to four people. If I click change layout and then I go to tile view. And then what change layout does is it basically lets you have a grid of up to four people. Now, normally if you want to switch over to the other mode, you'd go to the buttons down the bottom here and then change the layout. We'll wait for a few more people to come through. I'll say, please join me if you can, and let's see who can make it in.Ĭool. We'll see if any of the team are able to join. Let's see if I can at least switch on my microphone. They may or may not be able to hear me, but that's okay. We're going to see what happens here when people start joining in. Once you're into the Meet, you'll see here the grid actually creates this new little button up at the top here, up on the top right and that is the actual functionality added by the grid. Once you're in the Meet, and we'll just wait for the team to come through here. They have graciously volunteered to help out. I'm going to go ahead and join, and then I'm going to grab this link and drop it into my team here.
As long as we can see everyone else, that's all that matters.
#GOOGLE MEET GRID VIEW FIX SOFTWARE#
I got a funny feeling because my streaming software is running at the moment. Of course, and first rule of demos is that something always goes wrong. That's all right, but at least we should be able to get the camera. I'm going to go ahead and start a meeting and then I'm going to send that over to my team so they can all access as well. I'm in Meet here, but I'm going to first go and add the plugin. I'm going to go ahead and switch over to my screen so you can see my screen. But what if you're on a big meeting and you've got like five 10, 15 or 20 people, everyone working remotely? Let's see how this plugin goes. Now, Meet does have a grid view, and that grid view allows you to see four people at a time. I've dropped a link to it below, by the way.
Anyway, let's go ahead and try out this plugin. If we need to do like a social hangout and we want to play some games and you want to see everyone's reactions at the same time, we'll also use Zoom for that app but for everything else, we use Meet. When we do like a team conference, which we did over the weekend, where we have everyone together in one spot and we want to make sure that absolutely everyone can see what each other is up to, then we use Meet for that.
#GOOGLE MEET GRID VIEW FIX LICENSE#
Everything happens just in the Google world because we don't want to license Zoom for like 30, 40 people, and so Meet is really the best way for us, but we still use Zoom every now and again, and that is because Zoom has a couple of cool features like that gallery mode where you can see everyone at the same time. Now, we use Meet for 95% of our meetings. Hangouts Meet is the best way to have an internal meeting with you and your team and you can also do it for external meetings as well. If you're using that internally, it's a little bit like Slack but it runs all your chat internally. It's better integrated with your calendar, works really nicely, integrates with Hangouts chat as well, which is really cool. If you haven't yet used Google Meet at all, Google Meet is the kind of rewrite of Google Hangouts, and Google Hangouts has now been completely built up from the ground up. Unfortunately, Meet doesn't quite have the same thing, but I've come across something on the internet and we're going to test it out. If you've seen everyone doing their cool Zooms lately, and one of the best features of Zoom is a gallery view. I've got something cool to show you and that is a new plugin for Google Meet, so you can get gallery view in Meet. Hey, what's up guys? It's Pete Moriarty here.