A gesture adopted by many video conferencing applications in face-to-face meetings is to raise your hand to request your voice. Of course, instead of raising our hand, we need to press a button and raise our hand digitally. Both worlds now merge into a new one in Google Meet raise hand gesture recognition.

Get ready to make Google Meet meetings feel more “real”, asking to speak simply by raising your hand, without having to press any keys. This new motion detected using the camera is disabled by default and will be available to Workspace users in business, education and individual subscribers starting today.

Raise your voice to speak

In Google Meet, although it is entirely digital, it is now possible to request a conversation using the raise your hand function: you press a button and the moderator decides when to let you speak. Now we can save the effort of pressing the button. physically raise your hand.

This is because Google Meet now has the ability to: Detect that we raise our hand to request the sound. When it detects this, it gives us just over a second of additional time before the raised hand is actually activated, the equivalent of pressing the button. If we lower our hand during the countdown, the action will be cancelled.

Obviously, the camera needs to be active for the motion to work. not talking at that momentwhich wouldn’t make much sense. However, this function is disabled as standard; Therefore, those who want to try it and want to have this feature in their accounts should turn on this feature in the search options, options menu >. Turn on Settings > Reactions > Raise hand gesture.

For now, this innovation is exclusive to users. Google Workspace for business, education and individual subscribersGoogle Workspace is available in Business Plus, Business Standard, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Starter, Education Plus editions,
Teaching Learning Upgrade and individual Google Workspace subscribers. Although it initially appeared to be released for the Google Meet website, it wouldn’t be a surprise if it came to the app later.

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