Video Conferencing

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.

Video conferencing calls have quickly become a mainstay of socializing in 2020, and now Facebook is throwing its sizeable hat in the ring with a new service called Messenger Rooms, which will be able to accommodate up to 50 people.

Facebook has three new Portal video calling devices to show off, including one that connects to your TV.

Plain old video calls could soon be made to look very outdated, thanks to new research coming out of Queen's University in Ontario.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.

Designed to make sometimes chaotic remote business meetings feel more natural, the newly announced Meeting Owl camera features a 360-degree camera that can both broadcast the entire room and focus automatically on the person speaking.

Video conference calls have become a regular occurrence in offices, but squeezing everybody into frame can be a challenge. To make sure everyone in a tight space can be seen and heard, Logitech has announced MeetUp, a 4K webcam with a wide-angle lens and microphones tuned for small-space acoustics.

​Thanks to services like Skype, Slack and Facetime, there’s no shortage of ways to communicate and collaborate through voice and video conferencing. But Solaborate sees all this as clumsy and bloated, and is attempting to simplify the process with its new webcam, Hello.

The MM-Space system being developed by NTT features displays that physically mimic the head movements of the person being displayed on screen

Galileo is a motorized iPhone holder, that allows the user to remotely pan and tilt the phone.

NCR is putting the "teller" back in the automated teller machine with the unveiling of an ATM with integrated two-way video conferencing that lets users talk live with a remote teller through the ATM.

Researchers have created a system for transmitting holographic images in near-real-time.

Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled its PlayBook “professional-grade” 7-inch tablet that will be running the new BlackBerry Tablet OS.