- Hi, what's up, guys?
It's Pete Moriarty here.
I have a bit of a update for you.
I've got something cool to show you and that is
a new plugin for Google Meet, so you can get
a gallery view in Meet.
So, if you've seen everyone doing their cool Zooms lately
and one of the best features of Zoom
is that gallery view.
Unfortunately, Meet doesn't have quite the same thing
but I've come across something on the internet
and we are gonna test it out.
Okay, so if you haven't yet used Google Meet at all,
Google Meet is kind of a rewrite of Google Hangouts
and Google Hangouts has now been completely built up
from the ground up.
It's better integrated with your calendar,
works very nicely, integrates with Hangouts Chat as well,
which is really cool.
So if you're using that internally,
it's a little bit like Slack, but it runs
when your chat internally.
While 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.
Now, we use Meet for 95% of our meetings.
Everything happens just in the Google world
because we don't wanna 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.
And so, when we do like a team conference,
which we did over the weekend,
where we have like everyone together in one spot,
and we wanna make sure that absolutely everyone
can see what each other's up to,
then we use Meet for that.
If we need to do like a social hangout
and we wanna play some games
and you wanna see everyone's reactions at the same time,
we'll also use Zoom for that,
but for everything else, we use Meet.
Anyway, let's go ahead and try out this plugin.
I've dropped a link to it below, by the way.
Now, Meet does have a grid view
and that grid view allows you to see four people at a time.
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.
So I'm gonna go ahead and switch over
to my screen so you can see my screen okay.
Hopefully you can see that.
And let's go for it.
So I'm in Meet here, but I'm gonna first go
and add the plugin.
It's called Google Meet Grid View.
Oh, it looks like it's already been added.
That's pretty cool, okay.
And I'm gonna go ahead and start a meeting
and then I'm gonna send that over to my team
so they can all access as well.
So let's just go allow, allow.
Something is wrong with my microphone.
Okay, that's all right, but at least we should
be able to get the camera.
Nope, oh of course,
First rule of demos is,
that something always goes wrong.
Okay, let's try video.
Camera is blocked.
I've got a funny feeling, because my streaming software
is running at the moment.
So let's see if I can go and switch off.
Okay, that's fine.
As long as we can see everyone else,
that's all that matters.
You can see my camera, so I'm going to go ahead and join
and then I'm gonna grab this link
and drop it into my team here.
They have graciously volunteered to help out.
And let's see who we can get in.
So, once you're in the meet, and we'll just wait
for the team to come through here.
They'll start dropping in one by one.
Once you're into the meet, you'll see here the grid
actually creates this new little button at the top here
up on the top right and that is
the actual functionality added by the grid.
So, we're gonna see what happens here
when people start kind of like joining in.
They may or may not be able to hear me,
but that's okay.
Let's see if I can at least switch on my microphone.
I can't switch on the microphone.
Okay, that's good.
So we'll see if any of the team are able to join
I'll say, "Please join me if you can."
And let's see who can make it in.
All right, cool, so we've got Angel who has joined.
Good day Angel, good to see you.
And we'll wait for a few more people to come through.
Now, normally if you wanna switch over to the other mode,
you'd go to the buttons down at the bottom here
and the Change Layout.
And then, what Change Layout does,
is it basically lets you have a grid of up to four people,
so I'll have a quick change layout
and then I go to tile view.
Good day, guys, how you're doing?
If I go to tile view, it's gonna keep it in this tile view,
but it's only gonna support basically up to four people.
And so, let's see if we can get
a few more team members coming through.
Here we go, we've got Jeanie.
And then basically what happens,
we've got five people now,
is bit by bit bit, people gets stuck on this side.
And so we end up basically running out of people.
Everyone must be busy this afternoon.
(laughs)
No one could join us.
No one could joins us on a hangout.
But that's cool, we'll just wait 'till a few more people,
wait till a few more people dial in.
Anyway, guys, how's your day going?
(unclear audio)
Clearly.
(laughter)
Okay, we've got six people.
All right, make sure cameras are on, guys
and then let's have a crack at this plugin.
All right, so I'm gonna go ahead
and I'm gonna click this little grid button here
and see what happens.
Oh, wow, okay, I can see seven people.
Holy moly, that's pretty cool.
All right, that is great.
I'm gonna share my screen back to you guys
so you can see what's going on here.
So basically, I've got this again.
Okay, so we now have 13 people in here.
And, all right, this is actually looking pretty good.
So, we've got around 13.
Okay, we've really got to get more people out.
All right, if you're on the live stream,
and you wanna join, I'm gonna go ahead
and drop the link into the livestream.
Let me find this here.
But if we can get just a couple more people.
As long as we can get over 16, then I think
we will have beat Zoom.
So let me put this in here.
All right, that meeting link is now in the live.
Okay, we are at 16.
Let's see if we can get to 17.
Oh my god, all right, awesome.
Wow, it made it even bigger.
How are there two Rogers?
How did that--
Oh, you must have joined an extra tab.
Smarty pants.
Cool.
Wow, this is sick.
I think I like this even better that Zoom
because if you've got a massive monitor,
you can actually see everyone at the same time.
All right, we have 18 people on board.
And we have four Rogers.
(laughs)
I didn't eve know Chrome would let you do that.
All right, sick, so we've answered the question.
Let me know if you think this is cool
if you are someone who is watching along.
Thanks so much, guys.
Love your work, everyone.
Thanks for your help.
Have an amazing afternoon.
I'm gonna let you guys get back to work.
Thanks guys, see you later.
Cool, so that's it.
We are--
- [Team member] See you guys.
- See you guys.
All right, I'm gonna jump out that meeting now.
So we've got gallery view inside of Hangouts.
Check out the link right below this video
to get access to that.
That's probably my coolest feature of Hangouts,
well sorry, my coolest feature of Zoom
that I missed in Hangouts and now we have in Hangouts.
So that's pretty sick, so let me know
if there's anything else that you miss,
that you wish Hangouts had
and I'll see if I can find any random plugins.
Or if you've got any cool hacks like this,
let me know.
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Peace, see you guys next time.
Cheers.