These are by Rich Griffin, who wrote them as a comment to the original “VSee Stands Above Skype” post. Thanks Rich! Here are my reasons Skype’s 5-way video chat doesn’t do it for me: 1.) Skype is often verboten in the enterprise because it works around corporate network policy. VSee…
Competition
1. Skype’s beta only allows up to 5 callers—I’ve had an 11-way call* on VSee. 2. Skype only shares desktop OR video—VSee shows both. 3. Speaking of screen sharing: Skype’s screen sharing quality can be sub-par—VSee’s starts pixel perfect. 4. Skype has little else for collaborative tools—VSee does it all.…
Every day I have at least one conversation that revolves around using VC (“video conferencing” or “video collaboration”) to “get things done” rather than “meet”. Obviously efforts to increase acceptance of putting video collaboration tools where they’re most beneficial are gaining traction. For example, I know of at least one…
Here is a list of all of the other video conferencing providers we have found. Adobe Connect “Universal Voice: Enabling audio integration regardless of platform” Avistar “Integrated applications for unified collaboration” BoostCam “We provide free, instant, and disposable two-way video conferencing. It’s simple, fun, and doesn’t require installing any plugins,…
It’s hard to think of many better environments to use video collaboration tools than in a college setting. Not only for remote learning, but also for campus-dwellers themselves. Given the proliferation of computers on campuses, it may be more efficient for study groups to meet remotely because of the ease…
The recent discussions here about how VSee simple desktop video conferencing compares to the traditional, room-based videoconferencing systems (Polycom, Cisco / Tandberg, LifeSize, etc.) got me to thinking about why the older systems are still so complex and difficult to deploy and use. The first videoconferencing systems were sufficiently large, expensive,…
When people ask me how VSee compares to the other solutions in the marketplace, I’ll often say that VSee has the video quality of Polycom or Tandberg, the collaboration features of WebEx or Sametime, and the simplicity of Skype. I’ll stand by that analysis, but Skype does pretty well on…
