Most video calling apps rely on the assumption that everyone will connect to you with their own account and from their own device, but that won’t happen if you’re in a meeting room with, say, ten people. using the same video conferencing equipment. Two years ago, Google introduced the solution: Google Meet Companion Mode, which translates into Spanish as “Complementary Mode.”

Thanks to Google Meet add-on mode, meeting participants using a room’s video conferencing equipment can: Join as a second screen separately from a second device, so you have options to interact individually. It’s been available on the web version and Nest Hub Max so far, and now it’s coming to Android phones as well.

Mobile phone as a second screen in meetings

If all participants in a meeting are in the same room, there is no need for video conferencing, and if everyone is at home (or at their computer) it is normal for everyone to enter the meeting with their own device. Complications are coming some are in the meeting room while others are not.because those who share video conferencing equipment (PC, camera, speakers, microphone, etc.) find it a little more difficult to interact individually other than talking or constantly passing the mouse and control from one to the other.

The truth is that Google Meet has lately been offering more and more ways to interact in meetings, such as speaking as well as reacting or simply raising your hand. Those who share the meeting room have access to all of these features. complementary modeIt allows you to access the meeting you are in with a room’s video conferencing equipment, but with your own device.

This is your own device, which until now was just a laptop and can now be your Android mobile, acts as a second screen You won’t see the meeting itself or use the camera (that’s what the room equipment is for), but instead you’ll access controls to interact in the meeting.

you can do with it Introduce yourself by name at the meeting, join the conversation, send a reaction, raise your handturn on individual subtitles and view shared presentations on your own device.

This innovation is starting to arrive in Google Meet for Android start today, but it may take up to a few weeks for it to become active in your account. It will be enabled as standard and available to all users.

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