FaceTime for home video conferencing

The realities of a modern workforce are that people are scattered around locations making communication a challenging prospect without racking up travel expenses. The corporate world has long since been users of video conferencing facilities with people accepting pixelated images and losses of sound to conduct meetings across time zones. FaceTime was launched by Apple as an extension to standard iOS with devices using front and rear facing cameras. This new functionality allowed fellow iOS users to video conference each other via wifi creating near cost free visual connections. The service relied on your contact having an iOS device and on reasonable reception to conduct your video calls. It is in many ways 80's sci-fi movies come to life as people connect with loved ones across the globe able to see and hear them reducing the distances between one another. FaceTime. Epic 80's movies video calls in the palm of our hands.