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January 25th, 2010
Summary: New Facevision TouchCam N1 is a HD video cam with an
embedded H.264 codec chip, and dual microphones! This allows
for crystal-clear HD video and superior audio at the same time.
This little gadget is the first Skype certified video camera,
and works perfectly for all of your video-conferencing needs.
January 8th, 2010
CES: faceVsion announces first Skype-certified
HD Webcam:
There are currently quite a few high-definition Webcams
on the market, but what faceVsion announced at CES 2010 is something
rather unique, especially for video calling using Skype...
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Why HD Video Communication for the
Masses?
High Definition (HD) Video communication offers
the natural in-person communication experience
in ways that other technologies cannot. In addition
to travel cost saving (plus go
green) and increased employee
productivities, HD video communication,
at truly affordable price, will give SMEs/SOHOs
competitive advantages to their businesses
as well as improve consumers?life quality
with distant learning, healthcare, and home care,
etc.
The problem is, there are only
two extreme solutions available in the market
as of today:
- The pricey proprietary high-ends (incl.
those so-called “affordable solutions”):
dedicated video conferencing gear that looks
great, but costing thousands to tens of thousands
of dollars (if not hundreds of thousands),
with inflexible and costly data infrastructure.
- The impractical low-ends: standard webcam
costing tens to hundred dollars, together
with free PC-based video IM, deliver jerky
video and poor audio synch, and sessions either
don’t
connect at all or drop out just when you are
about to display a new tattoo or a new grandchild.
To take it to mass market, the obvious choice
is to leverage standard PC and equipment that
customers are familiar with (and already have)
to conduct real time HD (720p or above) video
communications. However, the challenges are
- Core2duo (or equivalent) CPU power cannot
handle real-time full duplex (encoding and
decoding) HD video (720p or above at 30fps)
communications, not to mention those single
core PC.
- Webcams (even with those multi-million mega-pixel
lens) available today can send only poor quality
MJPEG (at CIF quality or VGA at best), making
it impossible to send 720p or above video
quality over the network.
- Typical unmanaged 1-2Mbps broadband network
cannot transmit stable HD video qualit.
As a result, it undermines the real potential
of HD Video communication to grow as an industry
and benefit the masses.
faceVsion™ is in a big step toward busting
the market wide-open by providing real alternative
solutions to deliver seamless great quality
video experience on different screen sizes (to
meet different user scenarios) at truly affordable
price.
Click here
to see how faceVsion™ delivers the vision?
To unlock video communications market potential
for the masses, it is not about simply delivering
great quality video at skyrocket price, nor
providing cheap alternative at the expense of
quality. It is indeed about providing solutions
that can meet three equally important requirements
altogether:
- Exceptional audio/video quality at open
and private network under different bandwidth
quality
- Intuitive and extensible user experience
(UX) for different screens
- Wide variety product choice at truly affordable
price
The problem is, there are
only two extreme solutions available in the
market as of today:
- The pricey proprietary high-ends (incl.
those so-called & affordable solutions):
dedicated video conferencing gear that looks
great, but costing thousands to tens of
thousands of dollars (if not hundreds of
thousands), with inflexible and costly
data infrastructure.
- The impractical low-ends: standard webcam
costing tens to hundred dollars, together
with free PC-based video IM, deliver jerky
video and poor audio synch, and sessions
either don?t connect at all or drop out
just when you are about to display a new
tattoo or a new grandchild.
To take it to mass market, the obvious choice
is to leverage standard PC and equipment that
customers are familiar with (and already have)
to conduct real time HD (720p or above) video
communications. However, the challenges are
- Core2duo (or equivalent) CPU power cannot
handle real-time full duplex (encoding and
decoding) HD video (720p or above at 30fps)
communications, not to mention those single
core PC.
- Webcams (even with those multi-million
mega-pixel lens) available today can send
only poor quality MJPEG (at CIF quality
or VGA at best), making it impossible to
send 720p or above video quality over the
network.
- Typical unmanaged 1-2Mbps broadband network
cannot transmit stable HD video quality.
To achieve this, faceVsion aims to bring
truly flexible, scalable and affordable
live-like HD video communications experience
to consumers and SMEs anytime, at anywhere
they need. With faceVsion products? solutions,
our customers can
- enjoy real-time two-way HD (720p or
above) video communications and sharing
experience on standard x86 PC (Wintel
and Linux) architecture at 800Kbps bite
rate or above.
- allow such HD video conferencing experience
(with professional endpoint quality)
able to run on public internet in addition
to private company networks, and
- extend their existing applications/
services experience to HD with faceVsion's
scalable SDK.
Our ultimate goal is to transform video
communications
- from looking real to feeling real.
- from exclusive to affordable.
- from location-bound to pervasive.
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Events |
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3, 2010 |
TechTV
and CNN's Chris
Pirillo (3-3-2010)
VGA 640x480 (4:3 aspect ratio) video, click here
HD 768x432 (16:9 aspect ratio) video, click here |
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