Yahoo's Livetext May Be More of a Fix for Texting Than Video Chat
Posted in: Uncategorized
Yahoo has a new mobile messaging app that it thinks will fix the biggest problem with video chat. But it might actually address one of the bigger shortcomings with text messaging.
Yahoo thinks it can fix video chat with a simple formula: Take a text-messaging conversation and overlay it atop a live video feed of the two people having the conversation but mute the audio.
Yahoo has created Livetext, a mobile messaging app that overlays a texting conversation atop a live video feed of both parties with the sound turned off. The company unveiled the app during an event in New York City on Wednesday. It has been testing the app in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Ireland and will roll out Livetext to Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores on July 30 in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and France.
Post a Comment