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ooVoo's Face-to-Face Video Communication Solution Keeps Parents and College Students Connected Regardless of Distance

Posted on: Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 06:00 CDT

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Sending a child off to college, whether it's across the state or across the country, can be tough. The sudden absence of the face-to-face communication that families have grown up with can be lonely and unfamiliar for both parents and children. Adding to that stress is many families' inability to travel to see each other frequently, due to schedules or rising gas prices. ooVoo, the highest quality online video chat service, is helping to solve these issues by providing families with an easy, inexpensive way to keep in touch face-to-face.

With college students already spending hours a day at a computer, ooVoo provides parents with a meaningful way to connect with their kids somewhere they already live -- on the Internet. ooVoo is an ideal solution for families that want to connect in real-time video conversations, rather than less personal e-mails, text messages and phone calls. ooVoo provides families with a way to see each other "in person" -- allowing them to share the full scope of their lives, from a virtual dorm room tour to introducing new friends, in high-quality video.

"Speaking with my parents on ooVoo has added a new dimension to our conversations, because I can actually see their emotions and facial expressions during the call -- it's like being in the same room," says Jane Berkman, 22, who attends school in Winston-Salem, NC, many miles away from her family in Tucson, AZ. "That's particularly meaningful when you're living in a new place halfway across the country from your family. Seeing my mom's smile can make a hugely positive difference to my day."

ooVoo is easy to set up and use: families only need a web cam, a computer (Mac or PC) and a broadband Internet connection. The program is cross-platform, so they can connect with one another regardless of whether they are using Mac or PC computers.

In addition to delivering the highest quality video and audio of any online video chat service, ooVoo allows users to create a virtual family gathering, with six people joining by video and six people by phone.

In July, ooVoo released a new version of its software, ooVoo 1.7. This version provides users with the highest video picture resolution to date, featuring quality that increases the image-enhancing pixel count and quadruples the video call screen sizes. ooVoo 1.7 has been configured to work with more web camera hardware than its competitors, and will automatically detect if a user's webcam and bandwidth will support high resolution calls without the need to manually modify settings, adding to the ease of setup. In addition, the new version allows ooVoo users to send friends that do not have ooVoo a 'Video Call Link,' letting them quickly and easily join a video call via a web browser without installing ooVoo on their computer.

The standard option of ooVoo is free and allows up to three people to video chat simultaneously, send unlimited video messages, transfer files up to 25Mb each and instant message text chat. ooVoo's Super option features include video chats with up to six friends and family, phone calls to the U.S. and Canada, and recording of video chats for posting to blogs and social media sites. Super option packages range in price from $5-$15 a month.

ooVoo features include: -- 6-way online video calls -- Video e-mail messages -- Video call recording -- Multi-party phone and video calls -- up to 6 video and 6 phone participants at once -- including landlines and cell phones in the U.S. and Canada -- Add friends by web-browser link -- File transfer of files up to 25MB -- Video effects -- Instant text messaging -- PC/Mac cross-platform capabilities

To experience ooVoo please download and try the free software from http://www.oovoo.com/ .

About ooVoo

ooVoo provides a high-quality video communication service that delivers a more meaningful way for people to call and connect over the Internet. ooVoo's technology enables people to experience a face-to-face conversation and share a full range of emotions as if they are in the same room together, whether they are across the street or across the globe from each other. ooVoo's superior quality video and audio is available to anyone with a computer, broadband connection and a web camera, for real-time video calls with up to six friends, relatives and colleagues simultaneously. ooVoo's high quality video chat service includes high-resolution video, video conversation recording, telephony, video messaging, instant message chat and file sharing amongst other capabilities.

ooVoo is privately held and headquartered in New York, NY. You can learn more and download free ooVoo software at http://www.oovoo.com/.

ooVoo

CONTACT: Philip Robertson of ooVoo, +1-646-300-8743,philip.robertson@ooVoo.com, ooVoo ID, philiprobertson; or Rachel Colley,+1-212-515-1954, rcolley@brodeur.com, ooVoo ID, rachel412, both for ooVoo

Web site: http://www.oovoo.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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