Great news for Gmail users. Google has announced that it is integrating a voice and video plug-in for it Gmail Chat offering that lets you see or hear the friend with which you are chatting with.
To begin, all you have to do is download and install the voice and video plugin. The new voice and video chat features are designed using Internet standards such as XMPP, RTP, and H.264, which means that third-party applications and networks can choose to interoperate with Gmail voice and video chat.
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Once installed, click the “video & more” link inside the chat window and select “start video chat” or “start voice chat.” The friend you are trying to contact will hear a ring and be given the option to accept or ignore the call. Users can then chat within the Gmail tab or pop it out into a separate window and expand or decrease its size.
Voice and video chat is available on Macs running Mac OS X v10.4 or later and PCs running Windows XP or higher. A link to download the offering will be rolled out to all Gmail and Google Apps accounts in the coming days, but it is also available directly at http://mail.google.com/videochat. [via]
Just like google to adopt other people’s popular applications and apply it on their application. Seems that in the IT world you don’t need to be innovative anymore but just quick enough to adopt
Excellent, more and more full-service Gmail
Hmmm, when there is a real standalone GTalk program with this feature, I would be more likely to use it
-Mike
Gmail add Video and Voice Chat…
Gmail added so many features recently. I noticed the Video chat and Voice chat features in Gmail this morning. It make me surprise that the video conference is so high quality.
The video and voice chat integrated into Gmail chat. The interface looks so…