Brian
11-11-2008, 06:27 PM
New Gmail plugin enables in-browser audio and video chat (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13369/New-Gmail-plugin-enables-inbrowser-audio-and-video-chat/)
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Gmail's new voice and video features work in modern browsers that support the latest version of its web app, namely Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0, IE7, and Google Chrome. Google Apps users will also get this feature as it rolls out, but Gmail voice and video conversations are only supported on Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista via a Gmail voice and video chat plug-in that must be installed. Sorry, students, Internet café nomads, and cubicle warriors everywhere, but you may have to beg your admins for this new feature.
I'm kinda pumped about the cross-OS, browser-integrated audio/video chat that's coming down the pipe from the Goog'. It seems like it's really as easy as installing a plug-in and firing away with the video chat requests, something even my mom can do. My brother and I went the Skype route last month because we are on either side of the OS divide, and it took much trial and toil to get even that to work correctly.
That reminds me... have any of you seen the auto-zoom that Sony integrated webcams (and, most likely, others) use to keep your mug front and center during a video call? It digitally pans and zooms to a person's face, but it's all choppy and slow-like. Reminds me of one of those bad killer-internet-video-game / live-murderer-webcast flicks that have come out over the last few years. But since it's real life, it's more legitimately creepy."
Read full story here (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081111-gmail-gains-voice-and-video-chat-via-mac-and-pc-plug-in.html)
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Gmail's new voice and video features work in modern browsers that support the latest version of its web app, namely Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0, IE7, and Google Chrome. Google Apps users will also get this feature as it rolls out, but Gmail voice and video conversations are only supported on Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista via a Gmail voice and video chat plug-in that must be installed. Sorry, students, Internet café nomads, and cubicle warriors everywhere, but you may have to beg your admins for this new feature.
I'm kinda pumped about the cross-OS, browser-integrated audio/video chat that's coming down the pipe from the Goog'. It seems like it's really as easy as installing a plug-in and firing away with the video chat requests, something even my mom can do. My brother and I went the Skype route last month because we are on either side of the OS divide, and it took much trial and toil to get even that to work correctly.
That reminds me... have any of you seen the auto-zoom that Sony integrated webcams (and, most likely, others) use to keep your mug front and center during a video call? It digitally pans and zooms to a person's face, but it's all choppy and slow-like. Reminds me of one of those bad killer-internet-video-game / live-murderer-webcast flicks that have come out over the last few years. But since it's real life, it's more legitimately creepy."
Read full story here (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081111-gmail-gains-voice-and-video-chat-via-mac-and-pc-plug-in.html)