The Success Behind Video Chat Technology
One of the biggest drivers of success of the web story has been the increasing pace of communication over it.
Technologies of blogging, chatting and social network have continued to reshape the communication landscape.
Chatting is no more a boring activity where you have to write loads of text without being sure who is on the other side.
Video is redefining chatting systems on the web ever increasingly.
Video chat technology has been present in some form or other for a long time.
However, the expensive nature of this technology and lack of high speed internet network has been a deterrent in the growth of it till the 2000s.
Now the technology in many simple and advanced forms is used in different applications right from private chatting to telemedicine, distance education and business meetings.
The other components required for a video chat include: - Video Input / Output Device: Camera (digital preferably) connected to a computer.
You can also connect a LCD screen to the computer to get a better resolution - Audio Input / Output Device: Microphone and speakers - Network device: Internet using wired or wireless broadband With all the technological developments, some of the earlier problems with this has not been resolved.
Issues like eye contact have been regular problems even in advanced systems like Telepresence.
In video chat, participants are too conscious of their presentability and that also hampers the main focus of communication.
Further lack of uniform and consistent standard of bandwidth availability makes video chat a tedious process in parts.
For example, in India a good broadband connection providing non-buffering video streaming is still very expensive.
However, with the 3G revolution kicking in, the problem should be resolved.
For proliferation of video chat, it has to be made economically accessible to a larger population.
Many a futurists have envisaged a tomorrow where all telephone communications would involve audio and video components.
In fact there have been suggestions that 3D imagery can be used to recreate exact simulations of the communicating party.
Some claims may look tall order now but the pace with which the growth of video chat is happening, the possibility doesn't look very far.
Technologies of blogging, chatting and social network have continued to reshape the communication landscape.
Chatting is no more a boring activity where you have to write loads of text without being sure who is on the other side.
Video is redefining chatting systems on the web ever increasingly.
Video chat technology has been present in some form or other for a long time.
However, the expensive nature of this technology and lack of high speed internet network has been a deterrent in the growth of it till the 2000s.
Now the technology in many simple and advanced forms is used in different applications right from private chatting to telemedicine, distance education and business meetings.
The other components required for a video chat include: - Video Input / Output Device: Camera (digital preferably) connected to a computer.
You can also connect a LCD screen to the computer to get a better resolution - Audio Input / Output Device: Microphone and speakers - Network device: Internet using wired or wireless broadband With all the technological developments, some of the earlier problems with this has not been resolved.
Issues like eye contact have been regular problems even in advanced systems like Telepresence.
In video chat, participants are too conscious of their presentability and that also hampers the main focus of communication.
Further lack of uniform and consistent standard of bandwidth availability makes video chat a tedious process in parts.
For example, in India a good broadband connection providing non-buffering video streaming is still very expensive.
However, with the 3G revolution kicking in, the problem should be resolved.
For proliferation of video chat, it has to be made economically accessible to a larger population.
Many a futurists have envisaged a tomorrow where all telephone communications would involve audio and video components.
In fact there have been suggestions that 3D imagery can be used to recreate exact simulations of the communicating party.
Some claims may look tall order now but the pace with which the growth of video chat is happening, the possibility doesn't look very far.
