Google has added a new option in the labs section of Gmail that lets users pump up the quality in video chats.
The new setting, dubbed "video chat enhancements," ups not only the size of the video chat window, but its resolution too. The difference in size between the old and the new is considerable, both in the window of the person you're talking to, and the preview of your Webcam that appears in the bottom right-hand corner.
Besides Gmail, the enhanced video chat feature works in iGoogle and Orkut.
In its blog post announcing the feature, Google says that the enhanced version of the chat "frees up valuable resources on your computer" during conversations. It does this by making use of hardware-accelerated video decoding to take some of the work off a user's computer processor--the same thing Adobe's been baking into the latest versions of its Flash video player.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20016822-248.html
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The new setting, dubbed "video chat enhancements," ups not only the size of the video chat window, but its resolution too. The difference in size between the old and the new is considerable, both in the window of the person you're talking to, and the preview of your Webcam that appears in the bottom right-hand corner.
Besides Gmail, the enhanced video chat feature works in iGoogle and Orkut.
In its blog post announcing the feature, Google says that the enhanced version of the chat "frees up valuable resources on your computer" during conversations. It does this by making use of hardware-accelerated video decoding to take some of the work off a user's computer processor--the same thing Adobe's been baking into the latest versions of its Flash video player.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20016822-248.html
