ooVoo Introduces Real-Time Video Conversation Recording and Telephone Calling
to its High Quality Video Chat Service
New ooVoo 1.5 Enables Calling to Mobile and Landline Phones, Sharing of Video
Content and Video Effects
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- ooVoo(R), an innovator in the way people
communicate with real-time video, today announced the release of the newest
version of its real-time face-to-face video chat service, ooVoo 1.5. Now
offering more ways for ooVoo users to communicate and share conversations.
ooVoo 1.5 combines the highest quality video chat available online (adjustable
to up to 30 frames per second), video conversation recording and calling to
landline and mobile phones, beginning with worldwide calling to the
continental U.S. and Canada.
"ooVoo users are constantly looking to communicate and share their lives
and experiences with friends, families and co-workers," said Philippe
Schwartz, CEO of ooVoo. "In each new version of ooVoo we look to improve the
quality of our service and offer features that will help our users to
communicate in a more meaningful way. ooVoo 1.5's new features build on our
core promise of making communicating online more meaningful with the highest
video quality available-real-time or recorded-which presents our users with
unsurpassed, face-to-face communication quality."
Providing the best communication experience found online today, ooVoo 1.5
offers new ways to create and share content including recording a video
conversation for friends or colleagues or for posting online. More than
1 million video conversations take place on ooVoo every month, and now users
can record a face-to-face "reunion" with friends and family members from
anywhere in the world on ooVoo. Business colleagues can record conversations
to create video "notes" of an online ooVoo meeting. Journalists or bloggers
can create an interview series to be uploaded on his/her web site. The length
of a recorded conversation is limited only by the storage capacity available
on the hard drive of the user's computer.
To further enhance the creative options available, ooVoo has added a suite
of visual effects, such as backgrounds and facial overlays of characters and
creatures that users can add to their video messages and live video
conversations. In addition, the visual effects package allows users to share
a desktop and files from their computer, on screen with participants in a
conversation.
ooVoo 1.5 allows ooVoo calls -- from anywhere in the world -- to a mobile
phone or landline in the continental U.S. and Canada. This functionality is a
great enhancement to ooVoo's high-quality, multi-party video conversations as
it allows those who are unable to join via a computer meet with up to five
others in an ooVoo conversation. It's as easy to use as ooVoo's video calling
feature. Simply enter a phone number into the ooVoo dial pad and press the
green call button. A phone icon will appear as the call connects and begins.
From February 4 to March 1, 2008, users who download ooVoo 1.5 will
receive two hours of free outbound calls on ooVoo to any landline or mobile
phone in the U.S. and Canada from anywhere in the world.
Additional features of ooVoo 1.5 include:
* Import contacts from Yahoo!, Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger,
AOL Mail, LinkedIn, Mac Mail, ICQMail, Mail.com and Lycos Mail
* ooVoo conversation 'sidebar' window allows use of the desktop during
ooVoo video calls
With the adoption of ooVoo in more than 200 countries worldwide, ooVoo 1.5
supports 15 languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, French, German,
Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and
Turkish.
Users can download ooVoo 1.5 at www.oovoo.com.
About ooVoo
ooVoo provides a high-quality video communication service that delivers a
more meaningful way for people to call and connect over the Internet. ooVoo's
technology enables people to experience a face-to-face conversation and share
a full range of emotions as if they are in the same room together, whether
they are across the street or across the globe from each other. ooVoo's
superior quality video and audio is available to anyone with a computer,
broadband connection and a web camera, for real-time video calls with up to
six friends, relatives and colleagues simultaneously. ooVoo's high quality
video chat service includes video conversation recording, telephony, video
messaging, instant message chat and file sharing amongst other capabilities.
ooVoo is privately held and headquartered in New York, NY. You can learn
more and download free ooVoo software at http://www.oovoo.com.
SOURCE ooVoo
Media, Philip Robertson, +1-646-300-8743, Philip.robertson@ooVoo.com, ooVoo
id: philiprobertson; or Lisa Langsdorf, +1-212-651-4239, oovoo@fusionpr.com,
ooVoo id: lisalangsdorf
