Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Browser Meeting - Video Conference as it Should Be!


Meet the Browser Meeting!

The worlds first multi video conference tool for the browser only.
It started as a simple demo a couple of month ago. But with some help from funders in Sweden, Magnus Thor and Ulf Bjorklund have created a fully working demo for everyone to use.
It is as simple as real life. Decide a time for your meeting, book a room (name) and meet up.
No registrations, no usernames and no adds.
Browser Meeting can be used as it is or you can implement it behind your own firewalls.

Additional features

The Browser Meeting is ment to be more than just a ordinary video chat. Therefor Thor and Bjorklund has implemented some additional features such as realtime text chat. Which can be boosted with translation features if needed.
Thor is also working on a file sharing options, were participants can share documents during the meeting.

More to come

In January Google Crome will release screen sharing options wich will make applications like Browser Meeting even better. Though you easily combine video, sound and all type of sharing in the your browser.
Due to the fact that both Firefox and Ericssons Bowser Project are using webRTC (Real Time Communication) I am convinced that we soon will see loads of clever P2P solutions in the nearby future.
With the help of Bowser Thor and Bjorklund can build apps for smartphones also. While we wait for the web to reach all devices... ;-)