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Is video chat really popular? Other than for porn and families - sorry for the disturbing examples. I remember when Yahoo! IM chat had video chat and it was al
by dhughes 15y ago
Is video chat really popular? Other than for porn and families - sorry for the disturbing examples.
I remember when Yahoo! IM chat had video chat and it was all porn and even then only the really outgoing and pervs seemed to use it. This was in the days of Connectix quick cam "eyeball cam" and it was that was b&w, or at least the first ones were.
For some reason live video hasn't really caught on and even now it's not used that much at least by people I know. Is Facetime or Skype video used much?
- shazow 15y agoEveryone has families, so that's a pretty big "other than". I live in a different country than my family, so I call them on Skype video 2-4 times a week.
- ippisl 15y agoI think video chat isn't done exactly right , so it hasn't become very popular. You see this in many responses to google+'s group video chat. many say it's done right and want to use it. Another hint is group telepresence for businesses. it's pretty successful even tought very expensive. And some people who use video chat to remote relationships use it in a unique way: not the center of the experience but part of a shared experience. So they put a video chat on a laptop and in their main computer they watch a synchronized movie together , for example. And still the quality for most people isn't very good because of cameras and bandwidth issues. So that's part of what exciting with google+ video chat. that they may finally get it right and at scale.