Friday, January 26, 2007

Release of Microsoft Portrait 3.0

Thanks God It's Friday. What is Microsoft Portrait? Well, in a nutshell, it's an interesting piece of software that brings video conferencing to any device running WM5. No need to have 3G, Portrait works better.

Version 3.0 Beta for Pocket PC has been released. It is for devices running Microsoft Window Mobile 2005 with ARM series CPUs. Now it can support any built-in or plug-in cameras and even choose one from among multiple cameras.

Microsoft Portrait technology is available for commercial licensing.

Microsoft Portrait is a research prototype for mobile video communication. It supports .NET Messenger Service, Session Initiation Protocol and Internet Locator Service on PCs, Pocket PCs, Handheld PCs and Smartphone. It runs on local area networks, dialup networks and even wireless networks with bandwidths as low as 9.6 kilobits/second. Microsoft Portrait delivers portrait-like video if users are in low bandwidths and displays full-color video if users are in broadband. In low bandwidths, portrait video possesses clearer shape, smoother motion, shorter latency and much cheaper computational cost than do conventional video technologies. Microsoft Portrait pursues providing presence notification, chat/voice/video functions anytime, anywhere, on any device.
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Have a good week end all.

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