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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Do you guys have a video of this running? Maybe upload it to youtube or whatever, I would love to see it.
How will the OLPC project be self sustaining by the local people?
Bill Ashe founder, Lifewater International BillAshe@Verizon.net
How willful OLPC project be self-sustaining by the local people?
William Ashe founder, Lifewater International
Wow! It is great to see how these $100 laptop doing great things.
That's really cool, why still use a MS laptop? I would switch immediately, when they are available in public.
Regards, Xenia
100$ - good price :)
The excellent device! 5 points!
It will be hard to do across the internet because of bandwidth constraints.
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.
A videoconference can be thought of as a phone call with pictures - Microsoft refers to that aspect of its NetMeeting package as a "web phone" - and indications suggest that videoconferencing will some day become the primary mode of distance communication.
I was informed by our VC vendor's Tech Support of a forum for your Videoconferencing Professionals.