VSee Announces Free Home Telepresence

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VSee Labs announces that high-definition video calling is now available for free, beginning today, Nov. 4, 2010, directly challenging Cisco and Logitech’s recent announcements for paid home telepresence.

VSee is a stark contrast to Cisco’s $600 set top device for home telepresence, the ūmi. The ūmi also requires a $25/month service charge. Unlike Cisco, Logitech, and Vidyo, VSee requires no special device, only VSee running on your PC and an off-the-shelf webcam. In addition to free telepresence, VSee’s offering also includes a full suite of collaboration tools, such as application sharing, movie sharing, and file transfers.

By bringing cloud computing principles to live video calling rather than traditional client/server model of Cisco, VSee can achieve higher performance by orders of magnitude without incurring additional costs, enabling VSee Labs to give it away for free for non-business use.

Whether using the monitor in your home office or connecting your computer to the living room HD TV, you may now have multiparty HD video for free. For more information or to enjoy free HD video calling, visit VSee.com.

About VSee

VSee was founded in 2003 by Milton Chen to answer the following question: If videoconferencing has been around since 1927, why isn’t everyone using it?

The answer is video collaboration isn’t something you “go to”, but a natural part of your workflow. The VSee team focused on HOW people use technology. VSee was created specifically for ease-of-use and to encourage video collaboration—even when participants are sitting next to each other.

Because of this, VSee is steadily winning champions in enterprise deployments including Shell Oil, the Navy SEALs, the US Congress, and finance and technology companies. Until VSee, businesses have been caught between complex tools like WebEx, GoToMeeting and Polycom or something easy like Skype, which lacks multiparty collaboration tools.

Recently, VSee has gained global traction due to its unique video streaming engine. Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie used VSee to communicate with refugee camps. Mandy Moore used VSee to host her Facebook town hall meeting to raise funds to fight malaria.

Now, enterprises are bringing VSee into Europe, Asia and Africa due to its ability to reach customers and team members face-to-face in real time. VSee itself, in addition to its employees in Silicon Valley, has staff in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Malaysia, and Singapore.

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