Video Calling

Since many of us can no longer have face-to-face chats with family and friends, we've turned to online video meetups. Google is opening up its Meet video conferencing portal to everyone with a Google account for free.

Plain old video calls could soon be made to look very outdated, thanks to new research coming out of Queen's University in Ontario. A team there has produced a 3D teleconferencing system called TeleHuman 2, which enables real-time holograms of people to appear in any location.

Facebook Messenger's instant messaging, group chat, video call and SMS support features have helped make it one of the most popular messaging apps. Now, there's yet another reason to use it, with Group Video Chat in Messenger making it possible talk face-to-face with multiple people at once.

A new device called Loop is out to make it easier to share content and video chat with friends and family.

​Video calling has huge potential, but no one has perfected the formula yet. Google revealed its answer to natural, reliable, universal video messaging at Google IO in May, and has now followed up with the release of the Duo one-to-one video calling app.​​

If you were geared up about that Skype Translator preview that Microsoft announced a year ago, but weren't able to get into the closed preview, today is your lucky day.

The world's largest social network has today added free video calls to its Messenger mobile app. The move pits Facebook against already established video chat services and affords users yet another way to get some remote face-to-face time with the tap of a button.

The KUBI, a device that provides pan-and-tilt functionality to your tablet during video calls, is being pitched via crowd-funding.

LG has demonstrated seamless switching from voice to video calls over an LTE network at MWC 2012.

The first iPad-optimized Skype app is now available as a free download from the iTunes App Store.

Facebook has announced Skype-powered video calling for its users, who now number more than 750 million according to the company.

This week at Mobile World Congress 2011, LG is demoing voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) and video calls over the 4G Web on its Revolution smartphone.