Vidyo Demos Video Conferencing for the Kindle Fire

[Guest]

Vidyo is the first company to offer a personal telepresence application for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.

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[fandroid]

Video conferencing without a camera now that's impressive.

 

[dstigue]

Working From Home means working in your pajamas that's why video conferencing has taken a nose dive. If given the option. I would rather wake up and roll into work on the PC then take a shower at lunch maybe a nap.. Get my stuff finished up change from my bath robe at 5 and be out for the night. Working from home in comfort would turn into suit and tie at home which no one wants.

 

[akoegle]

I am a Video Support Specialist working at the University of Alaska. We do 15-20k hours of video conferencing a year here. Video Conferencing has a large impact on education and the way students attend classes, even if it hasn't hit main stream consumer use. So I wouldn't agree with the statement that "it's taken a nose dive"

 

[Guest]

The Kindle has no Camera or Microphone.... Exactly WTF are they talking about?

 

[sliem]

I'm guessing it's using an "avatar" instead of actual video (since kindle fire does not have a camera). However, it does not even have a microphone. So yes, wtf are they talking about?

 

[gallidorn]

Kindle Fire doesn't have a microphone or a web cam, so maybe they should have a common understanding of the hardware specs for a device, before they say Kindle Fire is their target audience. I suppose you could use a bluetooth headset, but I don't think many people are going to bother with that!

 

[koga73]

Doesn't have Bluetooth either

 

[JohnA]

I'd suspect what they are doing is something like Gotomeeting. You can follow along watching the presenters desktop, but you would receive and send audio on a telecon. There would be no video feed from outside the presenter. Given the requirement for Wifi access on the fire, and a separate phone connection, I'm missing the point of this altogether. Would be nice to have a more complete description of how this works in the article, or a link.