Skype Adds Video Service
Today, Skype released version 2.0 of it’s Internet-based voice communication software for beta testing. The new version boasts the ability to do what instant messenger clients have had for a few years now: voice chat (video conferencing). The difference? Skype, in antithetical opposition to nearly any text-based instant messenger software, began as a voice communications software which then had text-based chat integrated into it and not the other way around.
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We’ve seen where text-based chat clients have taken this technology, now it’s time to see how well an increasingly well-known company can implement this tech into their software. It would stand to reason that a company who started out with audio communication as their base could do a better job than one who started with a text only based service.
According to a report on Slashdot, they are already beginning to sell the appropriate equipment for such a technology (i.e.: video cameras).
If you’d like to try this new version, you may download it from here.