Google Partners With Miro to Bring Whiteboards to Meet

Google has teamed up with Miro to bring the online collaborative whiteboarding app to the Meet platform.

Miro boards is integrated into the Meet Activities panel, with the app designed to allow for brainstorming, planning, and forming ideas during a meeting.

Once a board is selected, Miro will launch, and all existing Meet features will be available in a side panel, along with the meeting participants.

Miro boards is the latest in a long list of features added to Meet over the last two years, with others including polls, Q&A, translated captions, hand-raising, and more.

Jennifer Shen, Group Product Manager, Google Workspace, said: “Miro is another step in extending the power of Google Meet with third-party solutions.

“Over the coming quarters, we will bring Meet into many of the collaboration and productivity tools that you already use every day.

“Our goal is to bring powerful collaboration experiences into the places your teams are already working together — reducing context switching — so they can create and achieve more together.”

Users will be able to create a new Miro board before a meeting and attach it to the invite or use the feature during an ongoing meeting.

A guest account can be used to start a board and save it for up to 24 hours, meaning registration with Miro is not required to use the app.

According to Google, Miro boards will give Meet users an immersive side-by-side video and whiteboard experience.

The company says this approach fosters idea generation and participation from all the meeting attendees, regardless of their working location.

In May, Meets introduced optional client-side encryption to give customers direct control of the identity provider and encryption keys.

Later this year, Google will add optional end-to-end encryption for all meetings.