Summary Report on issues facing Google Meet and its Competitors
Introduction paragraph
Over the years, the evolving workplace culture triggered the growing importance of video conferencing, increasing its productivity for remotely located members of a team. When video conferencing was fast introduced into the market. It was less popular compared to how it is today. For the most part, only two or three people could conduct video conferencing due to the difficulty presented with the technology at that time. Few vendors were offering systems that were compatible with proprietary hardware, a factor that highly discouraged the use of video in corporate conferencing. The history of video conferencing dates back to the 1960s when the first video conferencing product, Picturephone, was introduced in the market by AT&T corporation. The technology allowed users to conduct meetings remotely for a maximum of 10 minutes. However, the product was ridiculously expensive, difficult to set up and bulky, and therefore never took off. Flash forward to the early 2000s, Polycom company introduced view station video conferencing systems, which formed the foundation of the now popular video conferencing technology. Today, several technology companies have taken up the challenge to introduce video conferencing solutions to accommodate the growing demand in diverse sectors such as corporates, healthcare, higher education, courts, law firms, and the military. The wake of the covid-19 pandemic has seen the use of video technology increase across multiple sectors as the need for social distance and work remotely continue to mount. Various video technology applications such as zoom, Google meet, skype among others have taken up the challenge to provide corporate organizations, higher education institutions, the healthcare industry among others the much-needed platform for them to conduct effective communication. However, with the increased use of digital conferencing platforms, new unforeseen challenges are arising such as uninvited guests having their way during private video conferencing, compatibility issues among others. This report will delve into issues facing Google meet application and its competitors such as zoom and the pro-active steps that need to be taken to salvage the situation.
Conclusion paragraph
Although the covid-19 pandemic has acted as a wake-up call for the need to capitalize on diversified communication strategies such as video conferencing platforms, experts argue that the use of such platforms will continue to gain much popularity as a workplace culture continue to evolve. The various video conferencing platforms such as Google Meet and Zoom have been met with unprecedented challenges that have raised concerns over the viability of such platforms in an increasingly socially distanced society context. But with the forthcoming challenges, developers are coming up with innovative solutions that will make these platforms more secure, easy to use, and able to accommodate a large number of people efficiently. Such solutions include face recognition technology that will raise the security bar and make it harder for password interception that uninvited guests can easily perform to join video conferences. Other solutions include language barrier circumventions strategies that would allow people from diverse backgrounds to join video conferences and be able to listen and contribute to conversations using language translation software that can be integrated without affecting system functionality. These solutions are expected to address the major concerns facing video conferencing platforms and act as a foundation that will be used to address problems that this technology may face in the future.