Raise Your Hand in Google Meet Calls – Here’s How Google Makes It Easier!
Google Meet calls have (thankfully) decreased since the virtual meetings caused by the pandemic, but the platform is still evolving and getting new features that most of you wouldn’t mind. The latest addition is the use of gesture support, which helps you virtually raise your hand when you need to ask a question during a meeting.
Simply put, Google Meet now lets you raise your hand to raise your hand during a call, but the host and other members of the call can only see one of them.
The feature will roll out in the coming weeks, but only for those who have taken up the business, enterprise or education plan of Google Workspace. The company hasn’t said if personal Google accounts will be supported, but we hope it is.
The gesture-based feature is turned off by default, but you can manually go into Google Meet’s settings to enable the feature if you want that purpose. Google says you need to go to More Options – Reactions and then Hand Raise Gesture.
So how does this gesture feature help users raise their hands in Google Meet calls? First, you enable the gesture option mentioned above and make sure you raise your hand at the level of the laptop camera.
You have to keep the camera on to use the feature, but Google assures that if you’re the active speaker on a call, the handshaking feature will be disabled until you speak. Most people receive Google Meet calls with the microphone and camera turned off. In that case, you need to use the traditional option of clicking the hand up icon to let others know you have a question.
Does this new, as-yet-unreleased feature push Google Meet higher on your list than Zoom or Teams? (yes, we had to).
