Thursday, 6 Octorber 2011

Vidyo, which scored $22.5 million in new VC last month, rolled out an app today for Apple's iOS 4.x devices, including the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, which will allow users to participate in full multi-point videoconferencing sessions.

VidyoMobile is available for the iPad (right) and soon for Android-enabled tablets (left).

The app, VidyoMobile, is available in the Apple App Store, and helps the company take advantage of what has become the Holy Grail of videoconferencing: mobility.

VidyoMobile gives Vidyo's enterprise customers the ability to offer mobile workers access to company video conferences from iOS devices. VidyoMobile for Android is in beta and will come to market in November. The company didn't say when it will offer support for the iPhone 4S but did note it is in development.

"VidyoMobile turns hundreds of millions of mobile devices into video conferencing and communication endpoints delivering up to 720p HD resolution with shared content viewing capability," said Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Vidyo. "Equally as important is that participants are able to connect to video conferences beyond their mobile devices--with desktop and laptop computers and telepresence room systems--and experience the same low latency, high quality performance that is Vidyo's hallmark."

VidyoMobile is for business customers who currently offer their employees access to Vidyo's software-based infrastructure through their enterprise IT department or through service providers who offer Vidyo as a service.

VidyoMobile lets users participate in conferences with more than 100 participants, displaying up to four participants at a time on the iPad 2. Users can customize the view and select presentation materials. Additionally, participants are displayed using the active speaker feature, which automatically displays the current and last few speakers.