A Google Chrome extension that displays a selected Google Meet participant's video in a Picture-in-Picture window.
- Keep your video stream in display while presenting something else in your screen
- Keep a selected participant visible while navigating to other tabs or applications
- In this version, only the participants that are displayed that are visible in the main meeting layout can be selected to be displayed in a Picture-in-Picture window
This extension can be installed from the Chrome Web Store. Install from Chrome Web Store
We can also build and load the extension manually with the following steps:
# Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:arnellebalane/google-meet-pip.git
cd google-meet-pip
# Install dependencies
npm ci
# Build the extension
npm run build
npm run watch # useful for development
After loading and building the project, we load the unpacked copy of this extension into our browser:
- Go to
chrome://extensions - Toggle the "Developer mode" on at the top-right corner of the page
- Click on the "Load unpacked" button that appears
- Browse to the repository from the file browser and open it
- We should now have development version of the extension!
- Go to https://meet.google.com/ and enjoy building and testing the extension!
After installing the extension following the Installation instructions, it will then appear in the extensions menu in our Google Chrome browser.
While in a Google Meet meeting, click on the extension's icon to display a list of participants then choose the one to display in a Picture-in-Picture window.
Thank you for considering to contribute to this project! Below is a quick overview of how to start contributing:
- Fork this repository into your Github account
- Follow the installation steps above to run a development version of the extension
- When ready, open a pull request from your fork into this repository
For more information about contributing, please read the Contributing guidelines.