News broke like it was hot about a rumored video chat application approved on Apple. Now hold on one minute here… Didn’t we already invent this back in 2002? How does this become news AGAIN. Just because it works on an iPhone, it turned the industry upside down… I guess if it’s not on the iPhone, it never existed. Let me show you a company that already did this… secret post coming soon…
Fring—a free chat client for the iPhone that supports most standards—has been updated to support video conferencing on the iPhone, using Wi-Fi. It works on Fring to Fring, and Skype to Fring. Unfortunately, it’s not bi-directional. You would be able to see whoever is calling you from a desktop, but you won’t be able to transmit your image, even if you have the 3G videoconferencing kit. The reason is a physical one, according to the developer: The iPhone doesn’t have a front camera, so you can’t do face to face. - Gizmodo
This is really old news, can’t believe this is getting this much traction on popular sites like Engadget and MobileCrunch but Fring has released a new app that allows video chat on Symbian.
That might be about to change. The popular P2P VoIP service Fring has just announced that they have begun to add support for Skype video calls to their messaging client. Skype has hundreds of millions of users, and this service allows for mobile-to-desktop calls – in other words, mobile video chat finally has a chance at being useful and — more importantly — used. -MobileCrunch.com
If you’re looking for another company doing this, it’s iVisit. They not only do video chat but also multiparty video with up to 8 users. Think of them as skype but on steroids in the video space. I’m surprised not a lot of attention have been given to this company yet… Check them out at http://www.ivisit.com.
They have this software available on Windows Mobile phones. I think they have an iPhone app somewhere…. Apple can you open up the camera for them?
Pretty interesting concept. Imagine a blind or visually impaired user that needs visual assistance using their mobile phone as their virtual pair of eyes. I don’t know how they manage to get the mobile processor to do the real time image recognition but I bet they have a whole slew of upcoming technologies taking advantage of augmented reality scenarios with geo-located image overlays and a database of products for the blind to access and identify.
Check out iVisit to see their consumer level face-to-face video chat application that works cross carrier 3G and WiFi. http://www.ivisit.com or pr@ivisit.com
And did you guys know they also won CTIA E-Tech’s Enterprise Health vertical in 2009? I bet this is a great health app when they actually market it in this segment…
