FuzeBoxhas just released a newfangled iPad app that promises to turn that tablet into a potent videoconferencing simple machine .
FuzeMeeting()is just one of several vane services — includingWebex ( ) , GoToMeeting ( ) , and others — that enable you to take part in on-line meeting , via telephone or video , from your Mac .
You ’ve been able to participate in Fuze meetings from an iPad before , using iOS clients and the tablet ’s built - in camera and microphone . But those node have been hobbled compared to their bone ex counterpart . This new Fuze Meeting HD app for the iPad narrow the gap well .
As before , you’re able to initiate or fall in videoconference meeting from the iPad . But now those meeting can include people who are using conferencing equipment from a assortment of vendors , includingPolycom , Tandberg , andLifeSize . Those dedicated videoconferencing organization are notoriously incompatible with one another ; you ’ve typically need big , expensive hardware in your conference room to make them forge together .
But Fuze has a technology it cry Telepresence Connect , which the fellowship enounce move the processing required to make those systems understand one another to the cloud . That ’s how the society can enable an iPad to transmit with all of them .
In addition to that crossbreeding - compatibility , Fuze Meeting HD app adds the power to collaboratively footnote documents from the iPad . ( You must first upload those papers to the company ’s server ; ripe to have them there than to host them on your iPad or a Mac , which would slow up things down well . ) The FuzeMeeting service does a particularly unspoiled chore of sharing graphics : The company credit a proprietary interpreting engine for keeping images frizzy and clear , even when you zoom in dramatically .
The young app also includes a clever , touch - based optical maser Spanish pointer - like cursor , which permit you to direct participant ’ attending to dissimilar parts of shared document . ( Nice touching : The pointer is tenuous set off from where the confidential information of your finger is on the screen , so you may see it , too . ) From the iPad app , you’re able to also opt to record meetings ; those recordings are available for listening or download within minutes of a meeting ’s conclusion . In the previous version , you needed to apply Skype if you want to participate via VoIP ; the new app has a VoIP client build - in .
The update Fuze Meeting HD iPad client is uncommitted as a free download from the App Store . But to use it , you ’ll need a FuzeMeeting account . A Personal one costs $ 30 a month and allows you to hold meetings with up to 25 participant and 2 GB of online warehousing for document . A $ 50 Plus score ups the player to 45 and the storage to 10 GB ; you also get outright meeting recordings . For $ 70 a month , you may move up to a Pro business relationship , which allows for 100 participants and bring home the bacon unlimited online storage and transcription .
