Leopard: Broadcasting Apps Over iChat

[dukeblue91]

How can people vote this as a negative
This is a cool feature with many other possibilities to be build upon.

 

[Gosh]

Skype me!

Try as I might I could never get iChat to work, whereas Skype works fine ...err straight out the download image!

See alot of people in forums with similar problems and the AppleCare boys are no help!

Let's hope they get the basics right and maybe the fancy stuff can be - Pro!

 

[JonDann]

Tell us something we don't know!

Scraping the barrel after the Leopard delay and no news in forever! This was at MWSF 2006!

But still, easy to implement in an app. But you try doing it on an older model, my iMac G4 1GHz is pretty, but probably won't handle the realtime H.264 encoding it needs. Its getting to the end of its life in terms of 'can handle the new stuff that gets thrown at it'.

 

[Bosunsfate]

If your friends aren't using Leopard, then they really aren't your friends

Well put.

Why is this necessary? it is only a video transmission. Surely the other end could be AOL, or whatever additional standards apple chooses to add (please be skype!).
I could understand the need to have leopard and ichat if it was the feature that will allow remote control of the client mac through ichat, but not for the video feed.

Good point. I have noticed that for straight video or voice chat you don't need the other person to be on iChat. However that's only been for the one2one.

I haven't seen a situation where I could do the multi-person video chat and could be wrong. My assumption was that a similar unique feature like that would be limited to only iChat users, and only Leopard users at that.

Note that everyone has to have Tiger to multi-video chat....

 

[wmmk]

Interesting...
If Adobe adds iChat Theatre support in Lightroom, I will be a happiest camper. Somehow, however, I doubt that this will happen.

 

[Darkroom]

Imagine playing Chess over iChat where you can see your opponent, etc. There is a lot of cool stuff you can do with that.

you can already do that with Big Bang Boardgames Chess...

 

[GregA]

I cant believe nobody has said anything about the tv. This feature must be worked into it somehow. You can have an tv in the confrence room and everyone can just sync their mac to it for their presentation. Does this not make senese?

Well, those other 2 said it made no sense, but I think it's a useful feature.

Technically it wouldn't be syncing - but the ability to display your slideshow or quicktime presentation (or even your whole desktop) directly on an Apple TV would be useful for some people. You'd basically be treating the AppleTV as an external monitor.

I'm really not sure if this is an "iChat theatre" application or something else though. Just being able to bring your laptop out and show friends whatever by clicking "show on AppleTV" is good though.

Anyway, perhaps for business presentations that's not enough to warrant buying an AppleTV instead of just plugging your laptop into the projector. Add synchornisation of quicktimes & keynotes to the AppleTV and the usefulness expands.

 

[MacBram]

oh come on this is poor. We already knew about this it was in a keynote!

At MWSF we knew you could present iPhoto, QuickTime, Keynote; but this is implying there is support for developers to make it so they can present all their apps inside iChat too, with the presenter's face in the corner. Maybe that is the news.

 

[JonDann]

At MWSF we knew you could present iPhoto, QuickTime, Keynote; but this is implying there is support for developers to make it so they can present all their apps inside iChat too, with the presenter's face in the corner. Maybe that is the news.

It's not the Stevenote we're referring to. The developer sessions had a whole session on how the API for iChat Theatre is public. told devs to get going on it.

 

[Diatribe]

you can already do that with Big Bang Boardgames Chess...

Yeah, I know, but now you have an official framework for it, so there'll be all kind of apps supporting that.

 

[grimmace]

Get ichat to work cross platform and they got something. I dont need this cinema to chat with mac pals. Nice to actually use ichat video with a PC user for once!

 

[ghall]

Didn't we know this from the last WWDC?

 

[bryanc]

I'm sure Apple has already thought of this, but...

This is the killer App for distance education.

I podcast all my lectures, and students love it, but if they could 'attend' without having to drag their lazy butts out of bed, they'd be even happier. And if they can do that, why take courses from you're local college or university, when you can just as easily take the courses from the best professors at the best universities in the world? The only limitation will be student evaluation.

I foresee a big change in the way large-enrollment undergraduate courses are offered as these technologies mature.

Cheers.

 

[Diatribe]

This is the killer App for distance education.

I podcast all my lectures, and students love it, but if they could 'attend' without having to drag their lazy butts out of bed, they'd be even happier. And if they can do that, why take courses from you're local college or university, when you can just as easily take the courses from the best professors at the best universities in the world? The only limitation will be student evaluation.

I foresee a big change in the way large-enrollment undergraduate courses are offered as these technologies mature.

Cheers.

I am not a student anymore but if I were I'd be all over this. Especially the lazy butt and the bed part.