In a press release today, Fuze Box is announcing its plans to bridge the gap between popular mobile platforms and its current desktop web meeting solutions. The service launches today in the form of a private beta. With this release Fuze aims to bring an industry first to the people, multi-party desktop and mobile conferencing in HD quality.
“Our strategy is based on two facts. First, the meeting room of the future will be a virtual one and something you can hold in your hands. Second, people will want more device choice, not less,†states Jeff Cavins, CEO of Fuze Box. “We are browser, platform, device and network agnostic and whatever mobile or desktop device someone is considering purchasing, we’ll already be thereâ€.
The current situation with desktop conference meetings is strictly its limitations. Low video quality and poor latency has plagued the masses when attempting to unify a meeting around the globe. Fuze Box will be changing that. They are moving into the popular H.264 codec which will deliver a full 720p HD experience across the multi-party collaboration. The latest technology will also include VoIP, screen sharing, content sharing and a full suite of collaboration tools to make the most out your meetings. This will definitely be a very useful technology to have under your belt if you are constantly struggling to meet with people that don’t work in your office. Bringing the power of the mobile world into the mix can position anyone anywhere to always be included in those meetings easily and without the need to find that pesky desktop. You may read the full press release below.
Telepresence takes giant leap forward as world collaborates from any device December 2nd, 2010 (San Francisco) –Today, Fuze Box, the leader in mobile collaboration, is bridging popular mobile platforms & its desktop web meeting solution with Fuze Presence, the company’s highly anticipated video conferencing technology. The service, which launches in private beta today, is poised to reinvent collaboration by offering multi-party desktop and mobile video conferencing in HD quality, an industry first. Now anyone in the world can meet in HD video from any camera-enabled device with host and participants attending from Android tablets, laptops, desktops, iPhone 4 and iPad. Fuze Presence technology currently allows participants to log in from iPads and watch meeting participant’s live video streams. How it will work: The meeting host will access his or her account from a web browser or can meet from a downloaded app on their mobile device. The host will then start a meeting, enable video conferencing and watch the attendees conveniently access the video conference. In just two clicks, the host can initiate a video meeting quickly and easily. Watch the video here: http://fuze.me/drol7 Before Fuze Presence technology, video conferencing was an unreliable desktop-only experience with low video quality, and poor latency. Fuze Box’s innovation moves beyond the current video collaboration space with H.264 codec technology that includes multi-partycollaboration delivered at 720P, while maintaining the highest fidelity and under 200 ms latency. The technology also includes VoIP, screen sharing, content sharing and a full suite of collaboration tools in the experience. The Fuze Presencetechnology is currently optimized for 8 video participants at once. Fuze Box’s technology is designed to take the difficulty out of online meetings by offering a hassle-free alternative that puts enterprise users face to face on any screen with a full suite of collaboration tools at their fingertips.Since1998, Fuze Box has been awarded 22 patents around telephony and collaboration with an additional 44 pending. Its flagship product, Fuze Meeting, has been recognized for transforming tablet computers into business devices and for its cutting edge HD video and image capabilities –positioning the Fuze Presence technology to be the perfect combination of communication, collaboration and visual excellence. “Our strategy is based on two facts. First, the meeting room of the future will be a virtual one and something you can hold in your hands. Second, people will want more device choice, not less,†states Jeff Cavins, CEO of Fuze Box. “We are browser, platform, device and network agnostic and whatever mobile or desktop device someone is considering purchasing, we’ll already be thereâ€. For more information or to request entry into the private beta, please visit www.fuzebox.com/fuzepresence. About Fuze Box Fuze Box is a leading platform provider of real time visual collaboration applications for millions of end users across various businesses. Its applications – Fuze Meeting, Fuze Messenger, Fuze Movie and Tweetshare – allow people to communicate, collaborate and share content from any device, anywhere in the world. Fuze Meeting is a mobile and web-based collaboration service that features integrated audio conferencing as well as high- definition, synchronized video and image sharing. The company’s technology is based on a real-time visual communications platform that converges telephony, high-definition, synchronized video and image sharing across the enterprise, the web and mobile networks. Fuze Box, and its subsidiary Callwave have been awarded and holds 22 patents, with over 44 more pending in the fields of telephony, web and visual media technologies to transform how professionals and individuals communicate. For more information, please visit www.fuzebox.com
