Brad Treat, CEO, and Vera Belenky, Marketing Associate, SightSpeed

SightSpeed is a leading provider of advanced, yet easy-to-use, video conferencing software. The company, based in Berkeley, California, recently announced the launch of SightSpeed Version 4.0, which provides a console-like interface for users, and features new, echo-free open-air microphone/speaker support.

Entertainment Technology World used SightSpeed Version 4.0 today to conduct an online, remote video interview with SightSpeed CEO Brad Treat and SightSpeed Marketing Associate Vera Belenky.

You can watch and listen to that conversation between Brad Treat and Vera Belenky at SightSpeed in Berkeley, California, and the Etopia Media News Network studios in Studio City, California, by clicking here.

Among the points made in this interview were that SightSpeed is designed to be used, and often is used, by families wanting to stay in touch and visually experience shared events; that businesses use SightSpeed for both internal and external communications; that, while the new "videoconferencing-systems-in-a-box" from Cisco and Packet8 require both parties to a video call to have that company's hardware (and pay additionally for the service), SightSpeed's software videoconferencing solution works between already-and-widely available Internet-connected devices; and that the road map for SightSpeed development includes provisions for including cell phones as platforms for live videoconferencing, in addition to the "shoot-and-send" and "record-and-send" functionality now available on many mobile handsets.

Read about the release of SightSpeed 4.0 on The Mac Observer and at the SightSpeeder.com, the SightSpeed Users Group web site.

For more information about SightSpeed, or to subscribe to the service, click here.