You Can Now Raise Hand In Google Meet By Raising Your Actual Hand

You Can Now Raise Hand In Google Meet By Raising Your Actual Hand

Pretty much every conferencing app has the ‘raise hand‘ feature which is useful when you intend to ask a question or present information to the host, but they’re universally designed as a button that you click or tap on it. Google has gone creative and devised a gesture detection feature in Meet that makes you literally raise hands to send a ‘raise hand’ command to the chat room.

To make this work, it’s simple: just make sure your camera is on, and your hand is visible within the camera. To initiate, one simply raises their hands, though Google noted that it’s recommended to keep a distance from your body to make it easier for the detection system to tell. The blog post also noted that gesture detection will be ignored on active speakers (likely to prevent conflicts), but it’ll resume when the person is no longer actively speaking.

By default, this setting is turned off on all clients; and there are no admin-level settings available with this change. For users, simply head to More options > Reactions > Hand Raise Gesture to turn the setting on and get going.

The feature is currently undergoing rollout, with Rapid Release Domains expected to receive the feature by 24th November 2023 at the latest. Those in the Scheduled Release Domains category will begin to see the feature rollout starting on 28th November 2023, with up to 15 days of rollout period from that date.

Source: Engadget

Pokdepinion: In a way we’re back to using the good old physical hands, isn’t it?