Apple iPhone does two-way video conferencing!
Posted by Will on Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 5:14 pm under Mac OS, Developer, iPhone, Apple, Announcements
Well, it doesn’t natively support video conferencing of any sort (let alone video recording), but hackers at Mac Daddy World have come up with a neat little hack to hold a video conference between two iPhones. With the help of a handy mirror-gizmo,this custom hack “captures video from the iPhone’s camera, compresses it, and sends it to a web server, where it’s relayed to another iPhone, and vice-versa, resulting in a nice two-way video conference.” If you need audio, just make the call, put it on speakerphone, and start the program. Voila! Video conferencing on the iPhone.
Apparently, you can use your iPhone’s voice connection while pulling down data for the video stream, but the coolest part of this hack is the use of the iPhone’s camera to capture video. There may be hope for video recording on the iPhone yet! If these guys could turn the iPhone camera into a video camera for a contest, we imagine a natively installed third-party video recording app couldn’t be far away (or maybe even a tweak to the iPhone’s camera app to allow video capture).
The hack is not yet available to the public, as it was intended as a one-off contest entry/proof-of-concept project. We’re crossing our fingers for some sort of public release of this hack in the near future.
[Via: Mac Daily News]
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August 14th, 2007 at 9:27 am
This development is fantastic! I think rather than designing an elaborate prism or mirror, somebody (ie: Apple) should develop a tiny BLUETOOTH webcam that could interface with the Iphone.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Well, I would just be happy with Bluetooth A2DP
, but a Bluetooth webcam would be really cool. The question is whether or not BT has the bandwidth to stream video.
February 11th, 2008 at 3:49 am
There is really so much cool stuff going on with online video conferencing these days. I use http://www.live-conferencing.com/ to keep in touch with my buddies that no longer live in the area. It lets up to six of us get on at once and the fact that it is free makes it perfect for us.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:15 am
[…] Skype - Being able to Skype over wifi would be amazing, especially if they got the camera to work with video Skype. You could even use the mirror hack for the camera! […]
June 11th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
very cool stuff .