Dec 16, 2021

Autozoom to window in focus when presenting screen

When presenting using ultrawide (32:9) screens, usability is not that great:
  • Sharing the whole screen makes it too small for recipients with standard monitor formats (eg. 16:9) to be able to see details (like text)
  • Sharing the whole screen causes bad image quality even for recipients with ultrawide screens (32:9) as too many pixels are involved and bandwidth/compression cannot keep up to provide sufficient quality. Details (like text) are hard to see.
  • Therefore the presenter needs to share specific windows only and has to manually switch to the window he wants to present at the time.

Therefore it would be nice to have an autozoom feature when enabling full screen sharing.
Autozooming to the window on the screen which is in focus probably provides the best usability.

Alternate solution suggestions:
  • Constans zoom centered around the presenters mouse.
    Disadvantage: Probably neausiating and not good for image quality/compression, as a lot of changes happen on the screen all the time.
  • Select multiple screens for sharing and the presenter has a more comfortable way to switch between the windows to currently share.
    Disadvantage: Still requires the presenter to remember when to switch the shared window.
  • Select multiple screens for sharing and the recipient can switch between the windows to focus on.
    Disadvantage: Recipient has to be on top on which window to look at and probably not good for image quality/bandwith, as all selected windows have to be transmitted all the time.
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Dec 16, 2021
Hi Martin, 
 
Thank you for sharing your suggestions with Google Meet support Community!
 
From my 3 years work with Meet at work, standard monitors have never caused problems for my guests and partners in Meet meetings. Nor for the text. I believe a meeting with Google Meet needs to be well prepared vs just navigating the web through a shared screen. Correct me if I have not understood your point in detail. 
 
Please use the best practice Google rolled out with Workspace:
 
Then, is the feature request important for its advantages or for its disadvantages? I might be missing your point, but what matters for all users is when you write directly to the Google Meet team using the option "Send Feedback"in Meet, you need to be nailing the benefits of the feature you are suggesting. Many improvements in Google Meet have been reflected by the Google Meet team from users feedback and feature requests. 

In addition, I have asked one of our fellow Meet Product Experts who is best experienced with presenting from Meet at work to add his opinion on your feature request. 
 
Regards, 
NinCoT 
 
Dec 16, 2021
Hi NinCoT,

my main use case behind this request is not something like sharing powerpoint presentations for an hour but full day pair programming workshops.
This usually involves multiple windows with the need to switch between them often as well as  at least one of these windows showing code in usually small and easily mistakable characters.

Therefore sharing the whole screen instead of separate windows is much easier, but good detail quality is mandatory.
For e.g. a resolution of 5120x1440 is more than Google Meet transfers in a sufficient quality, even if all parties have monitors, which can handle this resolution. 
And if participants with more common screen ratios are involved, a shared 32:9 ratio screen is in general not very usable, as it is shows too small on the receiver's side.

In that regard, another solution alternative would be to be able share just a partly screen, like for e.g. the left half.

kr
Martin
Last edited Dec 16, 2021
Dec 19, 2021
Martin: thank you for the additional information! I understand your arguments better now and I believe Google Meet team will take your feature request into consideration. That's my personal opinion. Please send the feature request via the "Send Feedback"option as described in my answer above: from the [!] icon in Meet. 
 
Happy Holidays!
 
Regards,
NinCoT 
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