Last month, Google announced that its two video calling products Duo and Meet would merge together into a single video calling platform called “Google Meet”.
A small number of users are starting to see this merger taking place with the latest version of the Google Duo app on Android. 9to5Google has some screenshots showing the beginning of the transition with the latest version 169.0.459621665.
Your Duo app will become Meet, with a new name and icon and more features like background effects
The updated app shows that “Duo is getting better” and the main action button has changed from “New Call” to “New”. You can also “Schedule in Google Calendar” to set up calls for later. A new pop-up message shows the updated privacy terms, namely the transition from using end-to-end encryption to cloud encryption, which Google says allows for more features like live chat and subtitles. They also note that users blocked on Duo will not be transferred to Meet.
Source: 9to5Google
If a user schedules a new Meet through the desktop website, the meeting will appear in a new “Meetings” section of the app which will also list any other scheduled events from the calendar.
Google Duo was Google’s simple video calling app for smartphones or desktops that would rival FaceTime when it launched alongside Allo in 2016, and Meet wouldn’t launch until a few months later, in 2017. Google Meet is the video conferencing platform. integrated with Google Calendar and Gmail, and grew in popularity amid the peak in demand for conferencing apps during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Google’s support page details the transition from Google Duo to Meet, which will include all the features that Meet users take advantage of, such as 100-person video calls and advanced video calls with live captions and virtual backgrounds. Meanwhile, Meet will retain Duo’s features, including fun filters and effects, the ability to send video messages, and the ability to use the Google Assistant to call home devices.
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