[ALUmnus]

Yes, time for some exciting summertime news, right?

Polycomm started some videoconferencing consortium which could potentially allow video communication across multiple platforms. This also includes mobile devices (ie. smartphones). Could we be close to a day when someone with Blackberry can do a video call to someone on an Android device? From an HP to an Apple? Looks like it. Maybe Skype already allows this, I don't know, but it could be pretty cool. Right now this is geard towards business use, but this stuff always finds a way to the mass-market if people want it.

http://www.polycom.com/company/news_roo ... 10601.html

The broadest visual communications exchange of its kind, the new Open Visual Communications Consortium™ (OVCC™) organization will provide high-quality connectivity across service provider networks, making it easy for businesses, governments, universities, healthcare institutions, and other organizations using telepresence and video conferencing to connect with each other whenever they want without networking headaches. OVCC will be the first to establish a global standards-based, multi-vendor, multi-network visual communication exchange. Unlike proprietary exchanges, OVCC members plan to support the full spectrum of video systems from immersive telepresence and room-based systems, high definition and standard definition, followed by desktop clients and mobile devices.

[SuperJon]

Skype already does this to a degree. You can do multiple people but multiple platforms can talk to each other.