The camera software includes a whiteboard tool. A buddy list to see who's online when you are Camera users will be able to tell when other camera users are online and available for a video conference. The camera software can be configured to provide a text chat environment along with the video signal. A video conferencing system Needless to say, this will be the major contribution of the video conferencing equipment. His company, Groove Networks, has been developing Groove for four years and has recently released it as a full product, available for purchase by enterprise users, and a less feature rich version is available for free to everyone.
Groove is an application that all users install on their machines.
When the application is running, it communicates with other Groove users and allows the sharing of information. Through a network of relay servers, information can be stored for later distribution to users who are not currently online. However, unlike our intranet site, the Groove application is designed to support realtime interactions, and simultaneous use of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools. The Groove interface is highly innovative and does an admirable job conveying information to a user about who else is online, what the other users are doing, and what information is new since the user's last session. However, Groove, at least the free version, does not meet all of our needs, hence the continued reliance on our intranet site.