Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Google+ Hangouts Go HD, Starting With Hangouts On Air

Google today announced that it is bringing HD-quality video to Hangouts, its video chat service. The rollout will start with Hangouts on Air, the live streamed version of Hangouts that makes group chats available for viewing by anybody on Google+, YouTube and as embeds on a user’s website. Everybody else will be able to get access to this feature “over the next few weeks.” As Google notes, the higher video quality obviously requires an HD-capable webcam, as well as more bandwidth and processing power than a regular video chat. As our friends over at Gigaom noted earlier today, the company also switched from using the H.264 video codec to its own open VP8 codec in preparation for this move.


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