Introducing the facility of video chat with 32 people in Google Do

In March, Google increased the number of people in a group video call for its app Doo from 8 to 12, aimed at facilitating users during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In May, Google announced that Doo users would be able to make Doo group calls on the web, i.e. in a browser, directly competing with Skype, Messenger, etc.

And now Google’s video chat app has also introduced a feature to add up to 32 people to group video calling on a web browser.

This update is introduced with the new version of Google Chrome.

This is the second time this year that the number of people for video calls has been increased, as mentioned above, the number of people in a video call was increased from 8 to 12 in March.

In comparison, WhatsApp can only add up to 8 people to a video call, while Skype can have up to 50 people on a video call.

In April, Google further improved call quality in Duo.

For this purpose, the company used a new video codec technology called AV1, which is the successor of VP9.

Compared to VP9, ​​AV1 will enable better quality video calls with less internet bandwidth, while the codec will also help with video call stability.

On this occasion, Google had stated that as a result of the corona virus epidemic, the rate of use of Do has increased significantly, such as the rate of video messages increased by 800 percent.

According to the company, it is for this reason that it is changing its policy regarding video messages that can be recorded and sent and instead of expiring after 24 hours, they can also be automatically saved.

Ever since the coronavirus pandemic, technology companies have been focusing on improving video calling.

Although Zoom received the most attention, it also faced privacy issues.

On the other hand, Facebook introduced the feature of simultaneous video calling of 50 people in the form of Messenger Rooms, which has also been made a part of Instagram, while this facility will be provided in WhatsApp very soon.