OLPC Videoconferencing

Posted by Chris Ball Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:34:00 GMT

We just had our first trans-atlantic (and trans-Cambridge) videoconference on the OLPC!

We were chatting with the fine people at Collabora (Dafydd Harries is in the bottom photo), who have been working on getting Telepathy and Farsight running on the OLPC OS. Audio and video were both extremely smooth. We were exchanging 15fps, over wireless at both ends.

My hope is that starting a video call with another user on the mesh network could eventually be as easy as clicking on a buddy's icon in the mesh view.

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  1. Amazing said about 4 hours later:

    Do you guys have a video of this running? Maybe upload it to youtube or whatever, I would love to see it.

  2. William Ashe said 4 days later:

    How will the OLPC project be self sustaining by the local people?

    Bill Ashe founder, Lifewater International BillAshe@Verizon.net

  3. William Ashe said 4 days later:

    How willful OLPC project be self-sustaining by the local people?

    William Ashe founder, Lifewater International

  4. Clare said 19 days later:

    Wow! It is great to see how these $100 laptop doing great things.

  5. Xenia said 26 days later:

    That's really cool, why still use a MS laptop? I would switch immediately, when they are available in public.

    Regards, Xenia

  6. Caren said 3 months later:

    100$ - good price :)

  7. Identifier said 4 months later:

    The excellent device! 5 points!

  8. Xiang said 4 months later:

    It will be hard to do across the internet because of bandwidth constraints.

  9. Ryan C said about 1 year later:

    We'd love to see how this can feature can be added to XOs at the Illinois School for the Deaf in Jacksonville. All of the elementary school kids have their own XO. They could use videoconference for sign language communication.

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