Google Duo is the Google bet to make video calls through a telephone number, regardless of the operating system of the device that makes or receives them. A few days ago, he expanded the maximum number of participants up to 12, the same way as is about to do WhatsApp.
But the possibility of making calls with up to 12 participants, It is not the only novelty that Google had planned to add. One of the novelties that has begun to be deployed on the server side, we find it in the possibility of taking a photograph of all the participants who are intervening in the call.
In order to use this function, we must previously activate the Duet Moments function in the application settings, a function that must be activated on all devices that are part of the video call. Other functions that Google has announced will be coming soon are found in the possibility of being able to save video messages sent through this app to avoid that these disappear after 24 hours from their shipment.
The latest novelty, and no less interesting for it, is found in the quality of the video. After expanding the maximum limit of participants to 12, Google has decided to use the AV1 video codec, a codec that offers better performance on slow connections and that also consumes much less data.
Video calls have become during this quarantine the only form of power maintain eye contact with other people that do not live in our home, and it is likely that they will continue to be widely used in the future when all this happens, now that most users have adopted this method of communication as one more in the day to day, and not only in the work, but also in the day-to-day life of many families.
