In its quest to make Google Meet the perfect video conferencing platform obtainable, the corporate is now set to work with its nice rival Zoom – not in opposition to it. 

Google has continued to take a position closely and added new options because the hybrid working increase that got here round because of the pandemic, nevertheless it has a moderately giant drawback in that there are such a lot of various platforms that not each buyer, consumer, and even colleague, will use the identical answer. 

Whereas many firms favor to make use of the Google Workspace surroundings, which incorporates Meet, loads of others have continued to put money into Zoom as a major communications platform.

Google Meet and Zoom

To spice up potential new buyer choices, Google has now confirmed bi-directional interoperability between Meet and Zoom.

Coming later in 2022, the information means customers will have the ability to be a part of calls from an opposing platform from a calendar invite or by getting into a gathering code. 

There may be one small caveat, although, as whereas Zoom customers will have the ability to be a part of Google Meet calls “throughout all platforms”, solely sure Google Meet customers will have the ability to be a part of Zoom calls. Particularly, these operating ChromeOS-based Meet gadgets.

The corporate guarantees so as to add assist for different gadgets over time, however for now at the least, this can seemingly depart many customers uncatered for, regardless of following an analogous partnership with Cisco’s Webex platform over a yr in the past.

Elsewhere, the corporate has fine-tuned its collaboration with Logitech and Poly, each of whom will now provide Meet for Android-based home equipment. The Poly Studio X household and Android-based equipment variations of Logitech’s Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini are each set to launch in 2023.

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