

Therefore you won’t be able to determine how effective your presentation is. When you start your virtual presentation, you won’t be able to see the faces of the people in the room. One of the issues people have with online meetings is that it’s difficult to gain feedback during presentations. For informal meetings with friends, parties and travel backgrounds from different countries can be used.

For online classes, teachers can add the background of a classroom. For business meetings, users can add an office backdrop. Main feature: Users can add a virtual background by uploading images from their computer or using the standard images available in the extension. In addition to all this, it also has a feature of picture-in-picture (floating window), which users can enable in case they want. Google Meet Visual Background allows you to make and save as many background images as you can. Users can choose a Hawaii theme for a get-together with friends or an office wall for business discussions. You can choose from the regular set or upload your own personalized pictures as backgrounds and save it for future meetings. It allows you to adjust the backdrop of a real-time meeting on Google Meet. You’ll still be able to use until at least October, but that will stop working afterward, and what’s left of classic Hangouts will be the ability to download data/history via Google Takeout.Google Meet Visual Background gives you a wide variety of virtual backgrounds to choose from. Users are prompted to use Chat in or the PWA (Progressive Web App) at. In addition to Android and iOS, Google is similarly disabling the Hangouts Chrome desktop extension, while this month will see classic Hangouts stop working in web Gmail’s sidebar. Most people late last week were still able to see conversations and send new messages, but that’s no longer the case. We’ve encountered this prompt on several devices and Google accounts worldwide today.
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We will email impacted users with more information around September 2022 …some conversations or portions of conversations won’t automatically migrate from Hangouts to Chat.

This is not the biggest disruption to continued usage as the vast majority of messages have been migrated over to Chat. Once you see this screen, you can no longer access classic Hangouts on mobile. Launching Hangouts reveals an “It’s time for Chat in Gmail” prompt that acts as a forced upgrade on Android and iOS to use the dedicated Google Chat apps or the Gmail tab. The first stage of this shutdown impacts the old Hangouts mobile apps that haven’t seen any major feature additions in several years and have been mostly unavailable for new Google Play or App Store downloads in recent months. Many users are finding that they can no longer access Hangouts for Android and iOS today. As announced a week ago, Google is now in the process of shutting down classic Hangouts for free consumers.
