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Meet frustrates me immensely because I can't just fullscreen someone sharing an HD screen onto my HD screen and get 1:1 pixels with an overlay of faces (like Zoom does). Instead, I have to either not be able to read small text, or awkwardly pan in the recently-added "zoom" view.

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You get near full screen watching a shared screen with Meets with these steps:

1. change Meets call layout to one video (presentation) only, disabling participant watching

2. press F11 to make browser go full screen

3. press Ctrl+Minus multiple times to decrease UI elements which makes the shared video near full screen

I'll try that, thanks!

That’s a workaround at best

I also think this is perhaps the top issue i have with Meets. The current UX does not consider the fact people share screen most of the time. having ability to go full screen to get 1 to 1 scale with some essential floating menus. Even more recent years when remote teams are the new normal.

It is pretty frustrated how limited the layout options are. The best workaround is to open a second Meet window and join the meeting in "companion mode" [0]. Then you can at least position the windows how you like, with each focusing on a different thing.

0: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/11295507?hl=en

In Firefox, click on the small "Picture in picture" button, then click on the "full-screen" corner button to make any of the videos full-screen. OK you don't have the faces overlay, but you'll have a nice full-screen version of the presentation.

Yeah I feel like with a couple UI tweaks or options Meet would be the best by far. It's just so much more convenient and accessible than the others.

I definitely agree, needs no installation, things just work, quality is good, has nice features like push-to-talk, etc.

It's great, there are just some tiny UX niggles that could be solved very easily but haven't been, yet.

It's horrible slow on some computers/browser combos, which is my main gripe with it. Video quality is also much worse, but doesn't matter too much to me. And as with all Google stuff the UX is kinda weird and non-intuitive. What does all the different join options do? When should I use what? Why must all presentations be so small if I also want to see the presenter? Zoom is much better here.

We are a meet company and I often have calls with vendors. I very much dislike when they send zoom links.

It takes so much messing around with to actually get to the call, with meet it is one click every time.

Install the fat client, no thank you. Connect computer to audio? Why is that even a question? Zoom is living in the 2000s.

Just in case any Meet engineers are reading... It needs to let me put my self-view right under the webcam lens, so I can stare at myself and still be looking at the camera.

I always turn off self view because it is incredibly distracting.

FaceTime deals with this by changing your eyeballs realtime

I don't know how to do it with Teams either.

Using Firefox you can use the PIP mode to put the presentation wherever you want at any size.

Oh, really? I didn't realize I could detach the presentation element, thanks!

I'm not a Meet user but Google have a PIP extension of their own for Chrome that might also work for the same purposes.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/picture-in-picture-...

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