“Further confirmation of iChat AV with whiteboarding features surfaced yesterday. iChat 4, due to be released with Leopard, will enable users to share a common, bidirectional, active window, wherein various types of data such as documents, spreadsheets, graphic data, or other types of data, can be shared and manipulated by all participants in the teleconference,” LoopRumors reports.
LoopRumors has more, including a sketch from the patent application, in their full article here.
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A long time ago in a pst far, far away I said that iChat AV could evolve into a Live Meeting kind of app. I think that’s what is coming with 10.5. That will be a big plus in a lot of markets.
i wish i could use ichat but i have noone else to chat to with it lol, so i have to stick with msn 🙁
Take a look at the Flash demo
http://www.microsoft.com/office/uc/livemeeting/default.mspx
iChat is sweet but I wish it performed better with simple things like text
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I like the audio much better than Skype, more consistent quality.
I wonder how 37signals will take this. Probably pretty well because this will be confined to the small market share of the Mac world
This is going to be great for education and business use. Currently I use a proprietary (and expensive) Flash-based solution with my students, but this looks very interesting.
j,
Perhaps not 37 but 4 or 8 signals. iChat AV 3 currently supports 4 video signals. I don’t know if that will increase with Leopard/ iCAV4 but bandwith to the host will be a key bottleneck area.
Bugger that for a game of soldiers. Apple ought to concentrate on making iChat compatible with 95% of the computer users out there before dicking around on features like that. iChat is currently the most underused application on my Mac – I know noone that uses it. Useless.
“Perhaps not 37 but 4 or 8 signals.”
J wrote, “how 37signals will take this,” not “how this will take 37 signals.”
I think s/he was referring to this:
http://www.37signals.com/
Unfettered,
I meant the company. http://www.37signals.com/
To Reality Check,
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Oddly enough, that’s the most used app on our macs. All of our friends and family use iChat (or AIM, which works too). We vid chat with them all quite a bit. Which helps the phone bill since half of them are on the other side of the world
All my friends and family either use MSN Messenger or Skype. They also live on the other side of the world from us. So, I have to keep a PC in the house solely for the purpose of video chat. AIM on the PC sucks big time and I’d never dream of asking a PC user to install it just to accommodate my taste in computers.
Release a Spreadsheet app first! Bring out Numbers damn it!
( This is not to offend the guys in MACBU over at microsoft. You guys are cool !
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P.S. If you are looking for a software tester with a background in unix testing ( give me a holler!! )
regards,
The indian guy who did not get outsourced! Seems to me having an IT department in the USA adds more value to a company than it being overseas.
-sorry for the long signature.
Reality Check
Is a Mac user!?!?! Holy shit! The world has officially ended. Ladies and gentlemen, ignore everything from this point on as it has no significance, relevance or meaning to our pathetic lives anymore.
MDW- Lit. “I’m so fucking lit right now!”
I can’t get ichat to work with an aol user on a pc. Works fine for mac to mac on ichat, but no go with a pc user.
Anyone got any ideas? Software is up-to-date.
Neil
In addition to working with AIM, iChat also works with GoogleTalk. Google has instructions on how to make it work (pretty simple actually).
If this is so, it would definitely be very cool (and I do think it will be a part of iChat 4). I think I heard about Micro$uck$ adding this exact same capability into Vista. I’m not sure if it was one of the hundred or so other “features” pulled from Vista over the last 3 years, but if anyone can confirm my faded memory, I would appreciate it.
Cubert – Microsoft has had this capability for literally years. It is in the (now dormant) conferencing utility (called NetMeeting). It allows you to share a whiteboard, chat, video conference, file transfer, share programs, and share desktops. More on it at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/NetMeeting/Features/default.ASP
Apple is playing catch-up in this particular area – although the fact Microsoft quietly stopped developing NetMeeting suggests to me that there isn’t a great demand for this functionality.
>In addition to working with AIM, iChat also works with GoogleTalk.
GoogleTalk doesn’t do video.
At last, something added. Now for interpolation with other services. I’m tired of looking at an empty buddy list. My video/audio chats with my mom ended when AIM stopped working with my iChat several months ago. iChat just doesn’t have any intrigue without someone to connect with. Something big better happen with Leopard iChat. I’m hope it’s much more than whiteboarding, a feature Microsoft Netmeeting had well over a decade ago.
@Reality Check “Apple ought to concentrate on making iChat compatible with 95% of the computer users out there before dicking around on features like that.”
100% agreed. Like iTunes and QuickTime, I think they should release a Windows version of iChat AV. Has anyone else noticed that Win Notebook manufacturers are starting to have built-in webcams just like the MacBook Pro’s/iMacs? If they released a Win version of iChat AV it may EVENTUALLY become a standard if they put some serious work into it. As of now, I don’t use it. With a Win version as well, who knows? – Remember that most iTunes users/customers are Windows users. Although (and this is a BIG although), they make a PROFIT from the Win iTunes/iPod users. Still, I think they should release a version for Windows. I’m sure the average Win user would pounce on it.
I’m gonna play Jean Dixon here and predict they they WILL come out with a Win version. When, I don’t know (before Vista hits would be prime time), but for it to be REALLY useful they NEED to – AND it will be one more thorn in Microsoft’s side they will have to deal with.
It NEEDS to be done.