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> Hangouts (now Meet) Ah-ha! Google Hangouts Meet is indeed the GSuite video conferencing solution, complemented by Google Hangouts Chat, the GSuite Slack comp
by ISO-morphism 7y ago
> Hangouts (now Meet)
Ah-ha! Google Hangouts Meet is indeed the GSuite video conferencing solution, complemented by Google Hangouts Chat, the GSuite Slack competitor. Google Hangouts is "deprecated" but still alive, and with a plain-old gmail account I don't see an option to use Hangouts Chat nor Hangouts Meet, only Hangouts. As a user in a GSuite org, Chat and Meet exist, and plain-old Hangouts text messages are mirrored in Chat, but the video conferencing is still weirdly separate from Meet.
- modzu 7y agosounds about right until this time next year
- fragmede 7y agoIt's weirdly hidden but if you go to meet.google.com and make a meeting, others just need the url to join, no faffing about with connecting to other users in gmail. It needs a corporate gmail account to use though.
- InvaderFizz 7y agoNeeds a Corp account to setup and approve non-invited attendees. You do not require a google account at all to join a Meets session, but someone in the session with a valid invite will have to approve your entry. I test this quite often with incognito tabs to have multiple participants for room setup and testing.
- emiliosic 7y agoI'm not sure is deprecated. If you're free (paid by your own data), Hangout is the 'consumer' version. Meet is the paid platform, with more business oriented features.