IOCOM Visimeet
Visimeet is a video collaboration tool designed specifically for the education and research sector and offers:
- quick and easy creation of a virtual online classroom environment
- room systems can have up to 4 cameras providing simultaneous feeds, personal accounts have one
- contact lists to manage presence and allow instant communication, and show presence
- individual and group chat for larger sessions
- individual controls for audio levels and video feed sizes at the viewer site
- ability to share a desktop, an application or a file (screen sharing is at native resolution and no scaling or interpolation applies)
- a fully scalable solution (Windows or MAC OS) usable from mobiles to laptops to dedicated room systems
- interoperability with H.323, SIP, and telephone
- moderator functions for meeting co-ordinators (lecturers) to be able to remotely mute participants
- Raise hand function for questions, moderator can 'give the floor' to someone
- meeting/webinar scheduler allowing the setup of large sessions where attendees can watch and listen, then join in by chat, audio and video at any point.
- local and server based recording capability (this allows for post-event production processing to save locally)
- 'install-free' option for guests to use WebRTC (with Google Chrome, Opera or Firefox browsers) http://webrtc.org/
- whiteboard function allows all participants to collaborate
- servers operated on the Janet backbone for best quality of service, low latency, and security of traffic
- low cost subscriptions and maintenance (one subscriber can collaborate with up to 99 simultaneous participants who are using the free client)
- free access for 30 days to a full account, then drops down to one-to-one only with reduced features
- can be bridged into any Vscene session
This service is one of the first to utilise the JANET Connected Service, a non-exclusive third party service agreement.
Details are available at http://janet.iocom.co.uk/.